Data as investments in LLMs, art models, and AI startups?
A lot of the platforms (MTurk) out there are geared towards getting companies a buttload of low quality data from workers on the platform, who don't get paid what's worth for their data.
We want to try and flip this concept on its head - basically, people can not only rent and sell their data to AI startups, but also have the ability to invest them as a % of profits for future AI products - earn % of profits directly attributable to the company's model (all relevant AI products, services) for some (ex: 4-5 yr) period once the company earns revenue, with options to profitably contribute more. For most cases, it will probably be some combo of the three.
Similar idea goes for research ($$ on any end product it'll be used for, particularly nice if open source) -- y'all just have to add some data and you can have a stake in an AI company, while they can source the data without much upfront liability. All companies are vetted, and can add extensions to process / verify data, and automatically accept the ones they like.
Essentially, data is the bottleneck for a lot of AI companies, and we wanted to see if we can enable y'all to help 'em build out their products while having a voice in their future LLM, art model, AI products, etc.
We chatted with a couple companies, and we felt a bit interest.
What do y'all think? Would you be down to invest your data in AI (assuming there's extensions for anonymize data, clear privacy standards, etc.)?