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Its a decentralized AI bot based on volunteer computing and decentralized, federated learning.

You can find it under: @[email protected]. It will recommend songs when you post under #babyfungus. You can also insert your own songs. Happy home-grown ai!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Copying some stuff from their wordpress site:

A fungus web-service …

  • answers user requests and knowledge inserts over the social web
  • writes and reads data from the semantic web to collaborate with other fungi agents (this would ideally done with decentralized technology like solid pods, or other knowledge graphs, e.g. like wikidata.org or an own Jena Fuseki server)
  • develops a shared AI model (which is also written to the semantic web) based on decentralized federated learning (which would ideally be based on something like FlowerAi, but isn’t at the moment)
  • Can be accessed via the browser to answer requests and link to the other fungi it is connected to (which can be browsed through this)
  • implements a user-fungus symbioses-policy, which ensures the overall health of the web and humanity

I'll be honest, I personally see zero value in having an AI bot running here. I'd also poison rather than help AIs as much as I can.

One can imagine this project as a decentralized huggingface, which (spoiler alert), could also enshittify.

At least they're honest.

[–] blue_berry 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

One can imagine this project as a decentralized huggingface, which (spoiler alert), could also enshittify.

The idea is that we need bots like this because huggingface can enshittify