Digital garden
This is my digital garden: previously published essays alongside public working drafts. The archive preserves the published versions; drafts can evolve as I develop the ideas.
Articles: 51
August 2026 notes on stubs
Using AI kind of involves interacting with other people
Jokey responses to data work
Scoping AI dividend policies
An AI Dividends Plan that Combines Capabilities Assessment and Data Attribution: Without Taxing Compute or Requiring State Ownership
N-gram search as posterior updating for data attribution
Augmentation is a data flow problem
The AI "Evaluation Crisis" Is an Opportunity to Get Data Flow Right
April 2026 small points
Attestation across the AI Supply Chain
"People First" Policy Ideas that Complement Each Other (through better data flow)
AI is driving the cost of polish down; some musings on fancy versus terse artifacts
Two natural allies of a "Data Transparency" agenda: capabilities forecasters and social simulators
A Short Guide to Data Strikes and Conscious Data Contribution in the Context of 2026 Frontier AI
The Paradox of Reuse in 2026: A Case of Quasi-Enclosure, or "Subsidized Club Goods that Sort of Look Like Public Goods"
The Coding Agent Data Deal
Coding agents are (1) a big deal, (2) very relevant to data leverage, and (3) able to help build tools that support data leverage!
Almost Everybody -- Including Both Data Creators and AI Companies -- Stands to Benefit from Clearer "Data Rules".
How collective bargaining for information, public AI, and HCI research all fit together
Which datasets should we assume are "in all the AI models"?
Algorithmic Collective Action With Two Collectives [crosspost]
On AI-driven Job Apocalypses and Collective Bargaining for Information
AI progress as quasi-public good production
How do we know our AI output is good? Double checks, bar charts, vibes, and training data.
Each Instance of "AI Utility" Stems from Some Human Act(s) of Information Recording and Ranking
Google and TikTok rank bundles of information; ChatGPT ranks grains.
Some Semi-Serious Naming Proposals to Improve AI Discourse
[microblog] One book is worth "0.06%" benchmark points to AI; is "no different from noise". What gives?
Public AI, Data Appraisal, and Data Debates
Evaluation Data Leverage: Advances like "Deep Research" Highlight a Looming Opportunity for Bargaining Power
Content Ecosystems and AI, some links highlights from February 2025
Tipping Points for Content Ecosystems
AI Labs Should Open Source Data Protection Technologies
Live by the free-content-for-training sword, die by the free-content-for-training sword
Selling AGI like AG1: Will Consumers Push Back Against Proprietary Blends of Herbs and of Data?
Perplexity CEO's Interaction with Striking New York Times Workers Does Not Reflect Well on the AI Industry
Is Zuckerberg right to say that your specific creative work has no value to AI?
"Many Models" and "Track Changes" for AI: Some Thoughts on LLM Interfaces
Building a Data Pipeworks for Democratic AI: From Human Knowledge to Records to AI Systems
Will the New York Times Data Strike Have a Large Impact on ChatGPT?
A Harbinger of the Future of Content? The New York Times Starts a Data Strike
The WGA Strike is a Canary in the Coal Mine for AI Labor Concerns
Reddit, StackOverflow, and Europe: All Trending Towards Data Dignity
Data Leverage Recap: December 2022 - April 2023
Bing Rewards for the AI Age
Plural AI Data Alignment
AI Technologies are System Maps, and You are a Cartographer
AI Artist or AI Art Thief? Innovation, Public Mandates, and the Case for Talking in Terms of Leverage
ChatGPT is Awesome and Scary: You Deserve Credit for the Good Parts (and Might Help Fix the Bad Parts)
The Paradox of Reuse, Language Models Edition
Don’t give OpenAI all the credit for GPT-3: You might have helped create the latest “astonishing” advance in AI too
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