The Consensus Trap

Dissecting Subjectivity and the “Ground Truth” Illusion in Data Annotation

Sheza Munir, Benjamin Mah Krisha Kalsi, Shivani Kapania, Julian Posada, Edith Law, Ding Wang, Syed Ishtiaque Ahme
March, 2026
Type
Conference paper
Publication
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ‘26)
Julian Posada
Julian Posada
Assistant Professor

Research interests include platform labor, data production, and social computing.