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!
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.
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
It has been hidden
This profile has been hidden by the moderators of techhub.social.
At the same time, one can click “Show Profile Anyway” to see it. I wonder what the purpose of that was.
What’s it good for ?
Well, big tech has big computers, the Fediverse doesn’t, but we have many small one. That’s why its a good idea to combine them.
This has already been done for example by projects like SETI@home or FOLDING@home.
My idea is to build a web based on this idea.
There is a good video on federated, decentralized AI training here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/seminars/wednesday/video/20241127-1500-t221089.html
decentralized ai bot
Sounds awfully similar to a botnet. I hope the compute is sourced ethically.
Oh, surely you can trust internet strangers putting random stuff online to do the right thing.
#babyfungus Despacito
Cant seem to get it working? I tried the hashtag, its not doing anything, no change registered.
OP uses it here: https://mastodon.social/@bluebbberry/113992874321283600
Maybe there is some whitelist so it can’t reply to anyone else yet?
Hi, the bot was incorrectly set up and posted every 60s, which was too much and it got suspended.
Its now updated to posting every 12 hours and hopefully, it will be soon up again
