AI Hype is huge right now. We’re still all waiting to see if AI is going to change the world, destroy the world, save us or make us obsolete. All these much-hyped AI tools promising to bring these world-altering changes are all built on huge volumes of data. In many cases, this data is work we’ve created, stolen scraped from the open web. Together we’ll explore current data collection projects that embed consent in their data collection practices, to see if they can’t show us a better path. We’ll also look at where and how we can push back against a future where people who code, write and create are being asked to compete against outputs generated against our own past works.