𝐈’𝐦 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐚 — 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐜 — 𝐀𝐈.𝐃𝐍𝐀 | 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 + 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 + 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 | 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 #𝟑𝟐. This edition asks a difficult question: Can AI serve Indigenous fashion without stealing its soul? Read the full newsletter on citiesabc: citiesabc.com/can-ai-serve-the-816-million-worth-indigenous-fashion-without-stealing-its-soul With more than 476 million Indigenous people across 90 countries, fashion is not simply about aesthetics. Patterns, materials and techniques can carry identity, memory, land, authorship and generations of cultural knowledge. AI can help preserve endangered languages, support artisans, reduce production costs and connect creators with global markets. But it can also reproduce sacred designs, generate an “Indigenous aesthetic” without Indigenous creators and absorb cultural knowledge into anonymous training data. In...