[tomatowurst]

Couldn't a bunch of us shell out $5000~$50,000 and do this ourselves? Create a non-profit shell corporation outside US jurisdiction, issue shares, raise funds and open source the result?

The shares would simply be votes towards future training dataset endeavors as no profit would be booked here. Say you buy 5000 out of 500,000 shares, that would give you 1% voting power in what dataset to train.

[joshvm]

TF Research Cloud. Especially if multiple people could use it with eg model checkpoints:

> 5 on-demand Cloud TPU v3 devices, 5 on-demand Cloud TPU v2 devices, and 100 preemptible Cloud TPU v2 devices for free for 30 days

So up to 7k hours on demand and 70k pre-emptible

[bufferoverflow]

Go right ahead, spend $5-50K of your own money and let us use it for free.

[bergenty]

Who is going to be liable for the flood of child pornography that comes out of that setup?