Decentralized OORT AI data hits top ranks on Google Kaggle

Decentralized OORT AI data hits top ranks on Google Kaggle

OORT’s AI image data set reached Kaggle’s front page in multiple categories, highlighting rising demand for high-quality, community-sourced training data. An artificial intelligence training image data set developed by decentralized AI solution provider OORT saw considerable success on Google’s platform Kaggle. OORT’s Diverse Tools Kaggle data set listing was released in early April; since then, it has…

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Sentient open-source AI search outperforms GPT-4o and Perplexity

Sentient open-source AI search outperforms GPT-4o and Perplexity

“AI should belong to the community, not controlled by closed-source corporations,” Sentient’s co-founder told Cointelegraph. Sentient, an artificial intelligence development platform backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has released an open-source AI search framework that it says outperforms leading closed-source competitors. The company announced the public release of Open Deep Search (ODS) on April 2,…

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Genetic sharing site openSNP to shut down, citing concerns of data privacy and ‘rise in authoritarian governments’

Genetic sharing site openSNP to shut down, citing concerns of data privacy and ‘rise in authoritarian governments’

OpenSNP, a large open source repository for user-uploaded genetic data, will shut down and delete all of its data at the end of April, its co-founder has confirmed. In a blog post, openSNP co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras attributed the decision to shutter the site both due to concerns of data privacy following the financial collapse…

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Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance

AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior — sometimes taking down the site — open source developers are “disproportionately” impacted, writes Niccolò Venerandi, developer of a Linux desktop…

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