Data Levers

Ecosystems benefit from growth and fire -- the same is true for data ecosystems.

Botanic Garden
Wild fire
Frozen river
Roman dam
We dig new channels for water to flow and sometimes we dam a river -- the same idea applies to data.

You are a crucial source of data needed to train and test AI. If you support using AI in a certain way, you may want your data contributions to flow the systems that match your values. If you dislike how an organization is using AI, you may want to stop your data flow.

Data levers allow us to reconfigure how the records we generate flow to AI systems. This page links to tools -- software you can download, browser extensions you can install, and online platforms you can visit -- that help "pull" data levers.

Let data flow

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Open Assistant

Provide feedback for language models

  • Active ⚒️
  • Support commons
  • Context: Language models
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Mozilla Rally

Browser extension to capture research data

  • Passive 🌱
  • Support commons
  • Context: Research
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OpenAI Evals Library

Evaluate language models

  • Active ⚒️
  • Earn GPT-4 access
  • Context: Language models
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Twitter Community Notes

Add context to Tweets

  • Active ⚒️
  • Support commons
  • Context: Social Media
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Using Your Favorite App!

When you use your favorite app — whether it’s ChatGPT or Youtube — you contribute data

  • Active ⚒️
  • All kinds of incentives
  • Context: All types of data

Stop data flow

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BigCode Opt-out

Opt-out GitHub code AI training

  • Remove data 🔒
  • Opt-out
  • Context: Language models
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Spawning

Opt-out art from generative AI training

  • Remove data 🔒
  • Opt-out
  • Context: AI art
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UChicago SAND Lab’s “Glaze”

Alter art to prevent style transfer

  • Alter data 🔥
  • Protect your output
  • Context: AI art
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UChicago SAND Lab’s “Fawkes”

Alter photos to prevent facial recognition

  • Alter data 🔥
  • Protect your privacy
  • Context: Facial recognition
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Consumer Reports Permission Slip

App to make data deletion requests

  • Remove data 🔒
  • Protect your privacy
  • Context: Consumer data
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EFF’s Privacy Badger

Browser extension to algorithmically block tracking

  • Block data creation🦫
  • Protect your privacy
  • Context: Web Browsing
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Ghostery Privacy Suite

Suite of tools to block trackers

  • Block data creation🦫
  • Protect your privacy
  • Context: Web Browsing
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DuckDuckGo App

Browsing and search privacy

  • Block data creation🦫
  • Protect your privacy
  • Context: Web Browsing

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