Africa’s Creative Work Is Training AI. Who Makes the Terms Count?
THE SOVEREIGN STACK · SEASON ONE FINALE Over six instalments, The Sovereign Stack followed African creative work into the AI systems now being built on top of it: how it is seen, paid for, found, bought, recorded and governed. The season closes on the question beneath every one of them: who can make those systems come and ask, and who will still be there to answer?
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