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Africa’s Creative Work Is Training AI. Who Makes the Terms Count?

Participants at a language-data licensing workshop at Maseno University. Photo: courtesy of the Maseno Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Maseno University

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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Africa’s Creative Work Is Training AI. Who Makes the Terms Count?

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