{"ID":2886088,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03037","arxiv_id":"2508.03037","title":"When Algorithms Meet Artists: Semantic Compression of Artists' Concerns in the Public AI-Art Debate","abstract":"Artists occupy a paradoxical position in generative AI: their work trains the models reshaping creative labor. We tested whether their concerns achieve proportional representation in public discourse shaping AI governance. Analyzing public AI-art discourse (news, podcasts, legal filings, research; 2013--2025) and projecting 1,259 survey-derived artist statements into this semantic space, we find stark compression: 95% of artist concerns cluster in 4 of 22 discourse topics, while 14 topics (62% of discourse) contain no artist perspective. This compression is selective - governance concerns (ownership, transparency) are 7x underrepresented; affective themes (threat, utility) show only 1.4x underrepresentation after style controls. The pattern indicates semantic, not stylistic, marginalization. These findings demonstrate a measurable representational gap: decision-makers relying on public discourse as a proxy for stakeholder priorities will systematically underweight those most affected. We introduce a consensus-based semantic projection methodology that is currently being validated across domains and generalizes to other stakeholder-technology contexts.","short_abstract":"Artists occupy a paradoxical position in generative AI: their work trains the models reshaping creative labor. We tested whether their concerns achieve proportional representation in public discourse shaping AI governance. Analyzing public AI-art discourse (news, podcasts, legal filings, research; 2013--2025) and proje...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03037","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03037v4","authors":"[\"Ariya Mukherjee-Gandhi\",\"Oliver Muellerklein\"]","published":"2025-08-05T03:26:00Z","proceeding":"cs.CL","tasks":"[\"cs.CL\",\"cs.CY\",\"cs.HC\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}