Beyond Bias: Participatory and Reflective Approaches to Cultural AI

📅 2026-09-04
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本文通过参与式方法和反思性AI工具解决文化AI中创意意图与文化意义难以量化的问题,包括协作数据集创建、艺术家主导模型微调等。
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Generative AI systems increasingly shape cultural production, yet creative intentions, cultural meanings, and interpretive practices often can't be articulated through computational metrics alone. This paper presents Beyond Bias, a collaboration between Gooey.AI and Goethe-Institut India, as a participatory approach to cultural AI which includes collaborative dataset creation, reflective AI tooling, artist-led model fine-tuning, and co-authored governance practices. Across 9 workshops involving over 200 participants, artists and cultural practitioners engaged with AI systems through experimentation, iteration, and collaborative LoRA training. Participants used their AI-generated outputs and visualizations as reflective interfaces for exploring symbolism, memory, authorship, and cultural contexts. Comparing contemporary generative AI outputs with participant fine-tuned outputs helped participants reflect on cultural details missing in big tech AI systems. This paper contributes reflective AI tooling approaches foregrounding transparency, stewardship, and community participation; findings from participatory workshops examining how generative AI visualizations mediate cultural representation and interpretive practice; and a framework for cultural AI grounded in cultural integrity, and reflective practice.
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generative AI
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cultural meanings
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