Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 month agoThe goal is not to ensnare the user but to free them. AI is absolutely not part of this idea. I havent read of the mycelial web yet though. Is it a thing or just an AI pipedream?
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I made a first prototype here: github.com/bluebbberry/MyceliumWebServer. Its recommends songs to the users. You can see it here: techhub.social/@myceliumweb and try it out by posting to #babyfungus on Mastodon.
You can do AI in an ethical way by making it more decentralized. The idea behind the mycelial web is to realize it based on volunteer computing, meaning that everybody can contribute computing power. And then I can say, for example: use my models, which was trained with all these other models, on this Amazon alternative to recommend me stuff. And the AI model was trained on my PC and runs on my PC (just wasn’t trained solely with my computing power or my data alone).
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 month ago
I mean that definitely sounds like a cool idea, regardless of the drop shipping idea.
blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think a link between your idea and mine is in the direction of writer Evgeny Morozov (mondediplo.com/2024/08/07ai-cold-war), who did some interesting research of alternative forms of how the internet could have developed including a project by the chilean government called “Cybersyn” (in his podcast “The Santiago Boys”, open.spotify.com/show/7xlRxnooUnl48JVo726YXn)