Extra resources and readings...
- Chapter about Handmade Datasets in Decentering Ethics: AI Art as Method (2025, Open Humanities Press) that inspired the course.
- A Handmade Web by J.R. Carpenter (2015)
- Handmade Datasets Are.na Channel
- This Machine Kills Podcast
- Myriad (Tulips) by Anna Ridler
- The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence. (2022)
- Multimodal datasets: misogyny, pornography, and malignant stereotypes (2021)
- AI image training dataset found to include child sexual abuse imagery | The Verge (2023)
- Inside 'Small Batch,' a farmers market for datasets (2025)
- AIxDesign Small AI (2025)
- Flickr-Faces-HQ Dataset (FFHQ)
- LAION
- Handmade Datasets Are.na Channel
- South Asian American Digital Archive Guide on Archiving your own family history
- Data Center Topic Resource Guide
- Alt text as Poetry
- The Internet’s AI Slop Problem Is Only Going to Get Worse (Read for free here)
- In Defense of the Poor Image
- Is AI Profitable?
- A Primer on AI in/from the majority world - Data & Society
- Thread about LoRA Captioning on reddit
- Thread about LoRA Captioning on huggingface
- On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice - M. Leona Godin
- AI Kill Chain
- How to Build Anything Ethically - Suzanne Kite in discussion with Corey Stover, Melita Stover Janis, and Scott Benesiinaabandan
- The Ethics of Automating Design - Shannon Mattern