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Consent Isn’t Just an Ethical Safeguard - It’s a Data Quality Strategy.
20,000 People Said Yes. So Why Are Companies Afraid to Ask?
Apr 14
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Gerald Carter
How AI is Changing the Platform and Creator Relationship
The “Blank Check”: What Adobe’s Contract Argument Really Means for Every Creator.
Apr 7
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Gerald Carter
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March 2026
Their Terms Say They Don’t Use Your Data. An Investor Told Me Otherwise.
Do companies use your likeness hoping you will never find out?
Mar 31
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Gerald Carter
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Consent to One Thing Is Not Consent to Everything
Why we hold five-year-olds to a higher standard than billion-dollar tech companies.
Mar 24
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Gerald Carter
What If a Company Creates a Robot That Looks Like You — Without Your Permission?
It sounds like science fiction. But the legal framework that would allow it? That’s already here.
Mar 18
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Gerald Carter
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Buy, Build, or Bypass: How I Handle Data and Privacy Online
Your data is yours. A high level framework of how I think about data and privacy online.
Mar 16
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Gerald Carter
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I Haven’t Used Photoshop in Years. Here’s What I Use Instead.
I get asked this a lot recently - here is the truth about how I do image editing.
Mar 11
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Gerald Carter
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AI is changing everything, including me.
I used to be a behind the scenes guy, but I must speak up.
Mar 10
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Gerald Carter
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Why I Can’t Stay Silent Anymore
The story of how Adobe used 12K of my images to train their AI — and why I'm fighting for creators rights.
Mar 2
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Gerald Carter
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January 2026
Coming soon
This is The Ethical Layer.
Jan 30
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Gerald Carter
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