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Govern the Model, Not Only the Data: Storage, Circulation, and Learning in Creative AI

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Federated learning is increasingly presented as a privacy-preserving advance: personal data remain on the device, and only model updates are shared. It borrows the vocabulary of the federated social web, yet inverts its logic, distributing computation while the resulting model stays with whoever convened the training. We argue that federation is not in itself a remedy for extractive AI, because outcomes depend on who governs the data and the model and who has agency over the practices that shape them. We describe three layers at which a creative community can hold its work: storage, circulatio

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