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Seed Bank, Co-op, Stoop Swap: Metaphors for Governing Language Model Data for Creative Writing

Alicia Guo, Carly Schnitzler, Katy Gero

Creative writers' metaphors for language model governance favor small community-controlled systems over large corporate ones.

arxiv:2605.12888 v1 · 2026-05-13 · cs.HC

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These metaphors point towards smaller, open models that encode group values.

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That the metaphors and themes generated in the workshops accurately represent broader writer preferences and can be translated into practical governance mechanisms without significant loss of meaning.

C3one line summary

Workshops with over 100 creative writers produced metaphors and four themes for language model governance that favor consent-driven, smaller open models encoding community values.

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[1] [n. d.]. New Authors Guild AI Survey Reveals That Authors Over- whelmingly Want Consent and Compensation for Use of Their Works. https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-ai-survey-reveals-authors-overwhelming 2024

[2] Philip E. Agre. 1997.Computation and Human Experience. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997

[3] Imanol Arrieta-Ibarra, Leonard Goff, Diego Jiménez-Hernández, Jaron Lanier, and E. Glen Weyl. 2018. Should We Treat Data as Labor? Moving Beyond “Free”. 108 (2018), 38–42. doi:10.1257/pandp.20181003 2018 · doi:10.1257/pandp.20181003

[4] Leah Asmelash. 2023. These books are being used to train AI. No one told the authors.CNN(Oct 2023). https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/style/ai-books3- authors-nora-roberts-cec/index.html 2023

[5] James Auger. 2013. Speculative Design: Crafting the Speculation.Digital Cre- ativity24, 1 (March 2013), 11–35. doi:10.1080/14626268.2013.767276 2013 · doi:10.1080/14626268.2013.767276

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arxiv: 2605.12888 · arxiv_version: 2605.12888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.12888 · pith_short_12: 47CB2BXLPWPF · pith_short_16: 47CB2BXLPWPFY5O2 · pith_short_8: 47CB2BXL

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