Last week, I checked my email and saw a renewal notice for an AI tool I’ve been using.
I can’t remember exactly when I signed up.
I just know that I open it every day.
To write.
To brainstorm.
To get work done.
I pay on time without giving it much thought.
Until I start to wonder:
What if my account gets locked tomorrow?
What if the price doubles?
What if a familiar feature disappears?
It turns out many of us are building our work and daily habits on tools we don’t actually own.
Back in the day, buying software meant installing it on your computer.
Now, we pay to maintain access to intelligence.
That might be fine most of the time.
But the important stuff usually only gets noticed when it’s no longer there.
That’s when I started paying attention to projects asking a different question about AI.
What rights should users have when intelligence becomes infrastructure?
This perspective caught my eye on @OpenGradient .
While many projects are focused on building stronger models, OpenGradient is developing Open Intelligence - an AI infrastructure where privacy, verifiability, and ownership are prioritized.
AI will become the new infrastructure layer of the internet.
And the most important infrastructure of the future shouldn’t just be something we rent.
#opg $OPG $H $BTW
I can’t remember exactly when I signed up.
I just know that I open it every day.
To write.
To brainstorm.
To get work done.
I pay on time without giving it much thought.
Until I start to wonder:
What if my account gets locked tomorrow?
What if the price doubles?
What if a familiar feature disappears?
It turns out many of us are building our work and daily habits on tools we don’t actually own.
Back in the day, buying software meant installing it on your computer.
Now, we pay to maintain access to intelligence.
That might be fine most of the time.
But the important stuff usually only gets noticed when it’s no longer there.
That’s when I started paying attention to projects asking a different question about AI.
What rights should users have when intelligence becomes infrastructure?
This perspective caught my eye on @OpenGradient .
While many projects are focused on building stronger models, OpenGradient is developing Open Intelligence - an AI infrastructure where privacy, verifiability, and ownership are prioritized.
AI will become the new infrastructure layer of the internet.
And the most important infrastructure of the future shouldn’t just be something we rent.
#opg $OPG $H $BTW