Startup using blockchain to prevent copyright theft by AI is valued over $2 billion after fresh funding
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Tech Philanthropy as Market Lock-In Strategy Against Open Source
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It's not like they are giving people technology that nobody else has! Versions of this exist already, including open-source. Their motive is to look good while furthering their own lock-in over the open alternatives — at the cost of the "targets" of their philanthropy.
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Proprietary Licenses vs Open Source: AI’s Perverse Incentives
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Think about *how* they are (supposedly) helping. They are providing licenses as a lock-in to their own proprietary platform, instead of helping people permanently by promoting or releasing things as open-source. It's a perverse incentive at best, given the alternative.
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Tech Giants Should Fund Open-Source AI Alternatives Permanently
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You have to look at their actions in context: there are open-source alternatives which they could fund and *permanently* help those who they claim to support — rather than giving some the privilege of temporary cloud compute.
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Licensing Models: Proprietary vs Open Source AI Code
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Please use your brain for a second longer! They are giving *licenses* that could end at any time, leaving those people in worse position than before. If the profit-seeking companies made a lite version of their code available forever on open-devices, it'd be fine…
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Open-Source Accessibility Technology Over Profit-Driven Corporate Solutions
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This kind of thing should be open-source only. It's always dangerous to have profit-seeking companies use disabled people for PR, e.g. to fix the reputation problem caused by the rest of their business.
— Alex J. Champandard 🌱 (@alexjc) 21 août 2024
(It's huge Red Flag for me, same as NeuralLink's DARPA-derived technology.) https://t.co/8ixe1JVa7dThis kind of thing should be open-source only. It's always dangerous to have profit-seeking companies use disabled people for PR, e.g. to fix the reputation problem caused by the rest of their business. (It's huge Red Flag for me, same as NeuralLink's DARPA-derived technology.)
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India AI Innovation Challenge: Win INR 1 Crore for Social Impact Solutions
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Make a difference with AI! Submit your proposal for AI solutions that enable social impact now and win up to INR 1 Crore. Visit https://
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India’s AI Innovation Challenge: Building Solutions for Social Impact
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Be a part of India's AI journey! Submit your applications to build AI solutions that drive positive change across key themes such as healthcare, agriculture, governance, climate change, and assistive technologies for learning disabilities. Visit https://
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Government as DMV: Questioning State Scale and Bureaucracy
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The government is the DMV at scale. How much DMV do you want? That’s the question people should ask themselves.