Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is “making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation”
It’s a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it’ll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.
Even since the app doesn’t allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.
This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format
Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.
You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers’ reasons for the project here:
TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It’s a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model
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Here’s your eaily reminder to read Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis because he continues to be right about the future of the U.S. economy without knowing exactly what the next few years after the book’s publication would look like.
Your data is worth its weight in gold to these companies. Don’t provide it to them freely just because they nostalgia bait you.
