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The contributor-identity coordinate for AI systems that erase the human signal.

Where the people behind AI-processed work get surfaced, credited, and compensated.

Coordinated sets this position belongs to — the coverage it extends. Counts are the live cluster size in the graph.

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Architectural context

Ghost · Cross-Vertical · 2 compound moats. Architectural surface: Attribution. Cross-cutting: Ghost.

Layer position: Cross-cutting

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Why this is canonical

'Ghost' captures the structural invisibility problem — contributions that power systems without appearing in the record. 'Contributors' broadens the scope beyond named authors to anyone whose labor enters an AI pipeline: annotators, curators, subject-matter experts. The .com grounds it as an infrastructure coordinate.

Where it fits

A few directions this coordinate opens —

Data labor / annotation rights
A registry or platform for the human contributors whose labeling and curation work trains AI systems, establishing verifiable provenance for that contribution.
AI training data platforms, data labor rights infrastructure
Open-source and community attribution
Surfacing and crediting contributor graphs in open-source or community-generated knowledge systems where individual input is aggregated away.
Open-source tooling, collaborative knowledge platforms

Illustrative, not exhaustive — held as a transferable canonical position, open to the buyer's own use.

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