[adrianwaj]

Would you pledge in a crowd-funding campaign to build something like this?

You'd want something that doesn't allow training on private repos, so ideally not a private company that can change owners and managers and hence policies over time.

It's an interesting business case - open source website, revenue generating with some type of "open" business structure.

Its first repos could be of itself.

I had this idea for enabling pull requests to be in "pipelines" with each request crowd-funded (as an option) to thereby entice action. A small split could return to the main site itself for upkeep.

[999900000999]

Or full blown encrypted repos where only you have the key.

Or, if we go a step further you pay a licensing fee for Gitdot and self host it.

The cookie jar of AI training data is very hard to resist even if it’s a non profit

I think 50$ is the minimum you could charge and still have responsive customer support.

[erlau]

Oxenai is private but their vcs is open source including the server, so you could self host it for free and use it with other people. The vcs itself is a little bit like git but with native large fial support

I could be wrong but I think besides being able to self host for free you can also pay for something where they help you set it up and stuff

Something nifty also that you can do is that instead of them training on your data they enable you to train your own models on it and download the weights.

Definitely agreed its hard to trust anything you cant audit 100%. I think a non profit structured the right way would probably be pretty trustworthy not to do anything egregious like training on your data though. Or some way maybe to make the thing transparent so you know what happens with the data and you can basically audit the company somehow. I dont know if you would need to go as far as encrypted repos, that seems a little too paranoid but that would be a really interesting idea for a company although the target audience is probably limited