Data commons

The shared pool of open public data that AI systems both depend on for training and threaten to enclose, degrade, or exhaust through mass scraping.

grounded in: Latest-trends theme 'Data ownership & anti-AI-training backlash: Users and communities are pushing back on coerced AI-training data grabs and fighting to preserve open public data.'

Connected concepts

Training-data consent, Model collapse, Data Rescue / Guerrilla Archiving, AI training crawler, Surveillance capitalism