We Need A New Kind Of Data Rights

Associational data rights would empower communities to reclaim power from Big Tech

The Coding Agent Data Deal

On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts

The Paradox of Reuse in 2026: A Case of Quasi-Enclosure, or "Subsidized Club Goods that Sort of Look Like Public Goods"

How we can understand, and react to, the complicated impacts of AI systems on online communities and knowledge commons

A Human-Centric Framework for Data Attribution in Large Language Models

In the current Large Language Model (LLM) ecosystem, creators have little agency over how their data is used, and LLM users may find themselves unknowingly plagiarizing existing sources. Attribution of LLM-generated text to LLM input data could help with these challenges, but so far we have more questions than answers: what elements of LLM outputs require attribution, what goals should it serve, how should it be implemented? We contribute a human-centric data attribution framework, which situates the attribution problem within the broader data economy. Specific use cases for attribution, such as creative writing assistance or fact-checking, can be specified via a set of parameters (including stakeholder objectives and implementation criteria). These criteria are up for negotiation by the relevant stakeholder groups: creators, LLM users, and their intermediaries (publishers, platforms, AI companies). The outcome of domain-specific negotiations can be implemented and tested for whether the stakeholder goals are achieved. The proposed approach provides a bridge between methodological NLP work on data attribution, governance work on policy interventions, and economic analysis of creator incentives for a sustainable equilibrium in the data economy.

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The $2.43 Billion Question: Podcast Advertising in 2024

An immersive data story exploring podcast advertising trends and the breaking point where ads drive audiences away.