Rest in Peace Steve Lackey, Co-Founder, CTO, and most importantly, my friend.

You are what you eat, and you can't farm without the seeds.

The potential of even our most advanced technologies today are artificially ceiling'd by a stark imbalance of incentive and insufficient means to development network effects compounding intelligence ie. AI.

Instrumenting tools and product experiences which enable an individual to tune, leverage, and wield the totality of data touchpoints available today for permissive, respectful & thoughtful signal through the noise, transforming it into a true asset and 21st century tool, isn't possible without a foundation of trust. Even more simply, it isn't possible with greedy math which wholesale ignores the value the user provides and instead treats them as the product.

Without trust, incentive, and the ability to maintain ownership throughout derivative works, AI will remain as it is today.