Some Brief Thoughts on AI, Ethics, and Data Visualization

Kristin Henry
1 min readAug 17, 2023

There is so much hype about AI these days, and yet most popular tools are trained on data that is apparently stolen or otherwise unethically sourced.

To distinguish work from such unethical projects, one must put extra work to provide context and labels when communicating with colleagues and the general public.

Throwing out sexy catchphrases is lazy and irresponsible right now. If you are a researcher, you MUST distinguish your work from the “generate sales videos with chatGPT” hype that we’re all swamped…

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Kristin Henry

Generative and Data Artist. Creative Coder. Data Visualization Consultant. Founder of GalaxyGoo. http://kristinhenry.github.io/ Admin on vis.social