The ChatGPT Data Collective has just kicked off — a powerful new initiative centered around user-driven data collection and an open, privacy-first strategy. It aims to upend the unequal power structure underlying AI training data. There is hope that the collective will allow everyday people to have more agency over how they choose to engage with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Here, the ChatGPT Data Collective offers another way forward. Most importantly, it aims to rebalance who profits from the vast value created by AI training data.
The ChatGPT Data Collective was launched in partnership with Vana, a service of the Vana Foundation. Vana plays a critical role in the operations of the ChatGPT Data Collective.
home for people who believe the future of AI starts with human-owned data." - Vana
By uploading a .zip file of their exported ChatGPT history, users can join the ChatGPT Data Collective as contributors. In return for publishing their datasets, users earn $GPT tokens. This is because the more users contribute useful data, the more $GPT tokens users will earn.
The initiative starts on an unspecified date. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for example, has a place in the ChatGPT Data Collective.
