There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the AI crawling cpu overhead.

What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.

Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.

What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

The funny part is that all the commenters up till now failed to leave the room :D

I would be for a state owned chain, does not have to be completely decentralized, it’s just good tech that can make the payment processors of today obselete.

Basically require each bank to run nodes, while letting the central bank of the country hold the keys to mint new coins.

I mean one could also have verifying nodes run independent.

The tech is there, doesn’t have to mean use anarchy moneys, it just means an overhaul of our ways of transferring value around.

So basically it could help combat our blatant consumerism as well? Seems like a win to me

Wow, people start caring when they come for their porn. These duopolies should be broken up, people should adopt crypto payments.

I wish this was the goal, instead of large corpos doing large corpos things

Eh, just make shit up. Works for the world elite

You could also go the other way, if you are smart incapable of being efficient at me menial labour. You will go hungry, until such a time you are hungry enough to do the menial labour for very cheap.

Turning us into two distinctly separate classes, low educated low intelligence, and high intelligence, highly educated elites controlling swarms of smart AI

I admire your positivity. I do not share it though, because from what I have seen, because even if there are open weights, the one with the biggest datacenter will in the future hold the most intelligent and performance model.

Very similar to how even if storage space is very cheap today, large companies are holding all the data anyway.

AI will go the same way, and thus the megacorps will and in some extent already are owning not only our data, but our thoughts and the ability to modify them.

I mean, sponsored prompt injection is just the first thought modifying thing, imagine Google search sponsored hits, but instead it’s a hyperconvincing AI response that subtly nudges you to a certain brand or way of thinking.

Absolutely terrifies me, especially with all the research Meta has done on how to manipulate people’s mood and behaviour through which social media posts they are presented with

I’ll just ask chatgpt to do the research and vote for me

Yeah because if everyone is extremely cheap labour everyone will prosper? :)

The “if” is working overtime in your statement

But oh so lucrative, and with a catchy phrase…

I see moneybags in this idea, wonder who will first make it a reality…

And you are self-sufficient, or whatever the word is. But that’s the key thing for me, not having to rely on others for my services :)

Dude above you over is under the perception that it requires 100% uptime or other users to to be classified, which is wrong. You are definitely self hosting, albeit only for yourself I assume. Which is fine

Agreed, first path towards that is decentralized identities in my opinion

So if the AI generated summaries are better than man made summaries, this would not be an issue would it?

Lol, the source data for all AI is starting to use AI to summarize.

Have you ever tried to zip a zipfile?

But then on the other hand, as compilers become better, they become more efficient at compiling their own source code…

Federated solutions are just a step in the right direction, to be able to have people access free software and platforms, they will have to do something. Either pay (which they dont) or help provide the platforms.

The first step in helping provide the platform is probably to help host the load, to help host the load, the first thing is to be able to hold your data on your devices, the second is to be able to share your data with other devices.

The first part of being able to hold your data and share it is to own your identity and hold that locally. SSI identities help with this, that means that no server needs to hold and own your identity.

If the identity is kept safe, even though you are the one storing it on your hardware,that means the data you ship, can be trusted through signing.

Once that is the case, it’s just distribution and availability. Which there already are many solutions such as IPFS, or other CDN similar solutions, that means that volunteers can provide as much data storage/distribution as they want from their own hardware.

It all starts with owning your own identity, that enables the other solutions to be trustworthy.

Whatever you think about drugs and their legality doesn’t really matter when you look at how the legal system is applied here. As previous poster stated, this just shows that the legal system is broken as hell and only applies when used to control the common person.

Shits fucked up in the land of the free for sure.