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I hope you're having a great Devcon um
it's great to be here I've got five
minutes so I'm going to go really fast
um bear with
me so imagine a small group of companies
control access to the most powerful
machine learning used by billions of
people worldwide they record all your AI
conversations monetize your data and
share it with governments on demand
everything you share is attached to your
identity
forever they record whoops what's going
on
here okay sorry about
that through
politicized content policies their AI
models are trained to coddle and
redirect you when you explore topics
determined to be taboo they restrict and
redact information and influence your
thinking based on their view of the
truth does this sound like science
fiction it's not it's already happening
the current AI development path leads to
a few powerful companies controlling the
technology and becoming the Arbiter of
Truth the race to dominate the consumer
AI Market is on open Ai and by proxy
Microsoft have a head start their
partnership puts AI in the hands of 1.5
billion iPhone users the Biden
administration's policies entrench AI
development in the hands of a few
powerful entities accelerating
centralization that favors
incumbents it's notable that the new
newly appointed us artificial
intelligence Safety and Security Board
doesn't include any open- Source or
decentralized AI
leaders I believe AI should be
optionally private our interactions with
AI are personal and intimate this isn't
the Polish this is not the right slide
either sorry
guys um this isn't the Polish social
media version of us it's raw honest
intellectual exploration would you share
your diary online that's the level of
vulnerability we expose when we use AI
without privacy
safeguards popular AI
tools store your inputs and outputs and
in many cases the platform owns the
outputs you create as I mentioned
earlier these inputs are attached to
your
identity platforms are vulnerable to
hackers which continually lead to
breaches does anyone remember Equifax
information held by governments is
equally vulnerable and the authorities
making the privacy rules can't even
protect their own data a recent EU
Parliament data breach exposed sensitive
personal data of more than 8,000
staffers your data doesn't need to be
leaked to expose you to manipulation
Cambridge analytica demonstrated how
information can change the tech Giants
sorry the information you share with
tech Giants can be scraped without your
consent to create campaigns designed to
influence your
views we need to stop volunteering our
data and take control over what we share
with
AI I believe AI should be uncensored
centralized platform forms censor
according to often opaque content
policies influenced by the values of
those who control the platform hidden
behind system prompts that are only
revealed through
jailbreaking user Sy are interacting
with true machine intelligence a
calculator programmed to do statistical
inference on language in reality they're
engaging with proprietary partiality
within guardrails imposed by humans who
have their own biases at best we receive
nonsensical outputs like Gemini
producing black vikings at worst human
adulterated I can perpetuate the
silencing of public discourse no entity
public or private should monopolize or
contextualize
truth open access to AI is under threat
Biden's AI executive order requires
licenses for large models that restrict
the number of parameters allowed
California proposed an AI bill which
includes criminalizing certain
open-source AI
developments the eu's AI Act is more
permissive of Open Source but strict
large scale but strict on large scale AI
the authors the actx author himself has
raised concerns that the regulatory bar
has been set too high a stark example of
excessive regulation backfiring France
based mistol and meta both recently
withheld their latest open I open source
AI models from the EU preventing an
entire region from accessing advancing
AI politics Will play a role in AI some
push for tight controls others Champion
open source development the back and
forth highlights that ai's future should
not hint on political whims when
confidence is when confidence in our
political leaders is waning do we really
trust them to regulate
intelligence AI is being adopted rapidly
a recent Harvard study found that nearly
40% of all us adults between 18 to 64
have used generative AI but unlike many
but unlike money sorry uh or social
media we don't need to change our
existing Behavior but we do need to
start as we intend to continue we must
seek out and use Alternatives open
source permissionless AI of all through
thoughtful iteration is impervious to
political fancy ideology and the
antidote to gate kept curated and
censored AI it's pretty easy for a
developer to run a small model privately
locally using ol or a similar Service
open source models are rapidly becoming
competitive surpassing closed Source
models on many benchmarks you can find a
plethora of Open Source models on
hugging phase I've listed a few here for
those who can't or don't want to run AI
locally we created Venice a generative
AI platform that embodies the principles
of permissionless you can chat with some
of the leading open source models too
large to run locally generate images
create and interact with AI characters
and write and debug code all in private
Venice uses decentralized infrastructure
to run the platform all of your Venice
activity is stored only on your browser
Venice never shares your data with
anyone we simply can't because we never
had it in the first place use it
anonymously and for free if you want
greater amounts of infint or to access
the API you can upgrade to
Pro there's no doubt that AI would
change humanity and we should engage
with it but through mediums that are
optionally private uncensored and
permissionless
thanks hello okay that's amazing this is
time for question right now uh we
probably have time for one question
anyone have any burning question at the
moment about per permission AI it's kind
of an important part of the oh we go
yeah uh one question
uh one question uh how do you how can
you in that system run lwas and run your
own your own uh luras and your own uh ER
how was it called uh tune tuned models
can you do that since do you say you do
not have the data on your servers yeah
so we provide access to open source
models we host those on our service we
have a proxy service so when you send in
your prompt to Venice it's encrypted
sent bya proxy to a decentralized GPU
the response is also encrypted via proxy
and sent back to you on your browser so
nothing persists on Venice servers we
don't see your prompt we don't see the
response and it's never stored uh so I
cannot upload my own luras after I did
my own training um you can't upload your
own luras um for training but just this
week hopefully later today so I might be
front running myself
um we are uh going live with image to
image so you'll be able to upload your
own images and then you'll be able to
Tool them on Venice and recreate new
images with a base
image thank you that is our time for a
question please connect with Tina more
after the event you'll be will you be
around I will be around and if anybody
wants a Venice t-shirt please help me
out because I have a backpack full of
them and I don't want to carry them
around anymore amazing and then we are
yes another round of applause for Tina