Builder · Advocate · Founder

Technology should create opportunity for everyone.

I'm Gerald Carter — building at the intersection of ethics, data privacy, and equitable technology. Every product I create advances a singular mission: ensuring tech works for the people it was meant to serve.

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Four Pillars, One Mission

Every product I build maps to one or more of these core values. They're not marketing language — they're the operating system of everything I do.

Ethics

Fighting for fair treatment of creators and communities in the age of AI.

Privacy

Building tools that respect and protect user data by design, not as an afterthought.

Data

Demonstrating that data can empower individuals and communities, not just corporations.

Opportunity

Creating platforms that lower barriers and expand access for the historically excluded.

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A portfolio of products advancing ethics, privacy, and opportunity in technology.

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Destined AI

Building AI that works for everyone

After seeing AI label Black people as ugly, gorilla, and other derogatory terms, I wanted to know why. It came down to the data and the builders.

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PreLabel AI

Empowering creators to own their AI future

Creators and musicians have been getting screwed for too long. But they're sitting on an immense opportunity — their own unreleased content to train their own AI models.

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Top Voice Club

Helping brilliant people become thought leaders

So many people are brilliant and should be thought leaders, but they need help getting over the hurdle of creating content and sharing their voice.

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Coverage of the work, the mission, and the fights that matter.

PetaPixel

He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training Its AI on His Photo Library — He Lost

Gerald Carter established Diversity Photos to address the historical underrepresentation of minorities in stock photography. When Adobe incorporated his collection into its Firefly AI training datasets, Carter pursued arbitration — but faced financial barriers that he views as a dangerous precedent that could gut creator rights.

Matt Growcoot · March 11, 2026

Forbes

AI Is Forcing Middle-Class Creators To Think Like Music Label Executives

Carter and Lowther are building Pre-Label, a platform that allows producers to train AI models on their own unreleased work, generate new compositions, and sell access directly. 'A lot of creators don't even realize what's been taken,' Carter said. It's a move away from reactive protection and toward proactive ownership.

Jasmine Browley · March 30, 2026

Forbes

Creators Were Told To Build Online. Now AI Companies Are Saying 'Let Them Eat Cake'

Gerald Carter, founder of Diversity Photos, is one of the clearest examples of how that promise collapsed. Millennials were encouraged to build personal brands because platforms needed content. What AI has exposed is that many platforms were never neutral marketplaces.

Jasmine Browley · February 18, 2026

Tech Square ATL

Teaching Voice AI to Listen Better

Voice AI systems often fail to accurately understand diverse accents and speech patterns, creating real-world inequities. Gerald Carter's Destined AI aims to address these biases by building datasets with ethically sourced audio from over 10,000 diverse contributors.

Pearl Kaplan · October 20, 2025

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