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Published on SSRN

January 2026

AI governance
Data quality
Accountability

Independent research · SSRN working paper

Negligent Poisoned Environments: How Cumulative Input Negligence Undermines Enterprise AI

How can everyday documentation and feedback practices degrade the data an AI system depends on? This paper examines that question through data governance and the legal concept of negligence.

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Elsewhere,
in music.

Matthan writes and records music as XenoThan. Explore that side of his work on YouTube and in the music section.

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