The Blockchain Socialist

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Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage

Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent from Data Leverage4 mrt1 u 03 min

I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about what it actually means that AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it. Nick has spent years researching how data functions as a bargaining tool, and we get into the nitty gritty of what that looks like in practice: data strikes, data poisoning, and redirecting your data to competitors as forms o...