TL;DR

• Space and Time (a web3 startup) is creating a decentralized, un-censorable third party verification system for AI data sourcing.

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“Trust me bro.”

It’s not a reference that exactly inspires confidence.

Sure, when your idiot cousin Brian tries to pitch you his idea for a dog grooming/ice cream delivery service that:

“Saves on costs, cause you can use the same van for both businesses.”

It’s expected that ‘trust me bro’ will make up a large part of his ‘market research.’

…but when it comes to building an artificial super-intelligence “trust me bro” isn’t a sufficient ethos/approach to answering the question of where you’re getting all your training data (whether it’s truthful, and you actually own it).

That’s the problem Space and Time (a web3 startup) is looking to solve.

The idea being that by creating a decentralized, un-censorable third party system that says “yes, this data is clean and paid for” (or vice versa), it sets a standard and incentivizes AI companies to compete with the new rating system.

For example:

Say the first handful of AI companies to adopt this verification have an average of 20% of their data verified by Space and Time…

That opens the door for other AI companies to jump on board, outpace those ratings and claim their data verification ‘beats industry standards.’

Creating a race to the top, across the industry.

It’s a hell of an idea! And one that needs to be realized and proliferated at some point.

Whether it will be Space and Time that does it?

No idea!

Creating and establishing accepted industry standards (aka “making fetch happen”) is hard.