My Voice, Your Voice, Our Voice: Attitudes Towards Collective Governance of a Choral AI Dataset

Data grows in value when joined and combined; likewise the power of voice grows in ensemble. With 14 UK choirs, we explore opportunities for bottom-up data governance of a jointly created Choral AI Dataset. Guided by a survey of chorister attitudes towards generative AI models trained using their data, we explore opportunities to create empowerment structures that go beyond opt in and opt out. We test the deployment of a data intermediary to enable governance of the dataset amongst the choirs and AI developers. We hope our findings can contribute to growing efforts to advance collective data governance practices and shape a more creative, empowering future for arts communities in the generative AI ecosystem.