Who owns the data when Deaf signers train AI models — and how do we stop our language from being extracted without consent?
Every major sign language model needs thousands of hours of signing video. A lot of it is being scraped from YouTube, TikTok, and Vimeo right now. What should informed consent actually look like for a community whose language IS visual identity?
Prompts to get you thinking
- What does "informed consent" mean when the training set is already built?
- Should Deaf creators be compensated — and by whom — when their signing ends up in a model?
- What would a Deaf-led data license look like? Who enforces it?
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