Streamr, a blockchain-based data marketplace is also developing a system that could potentially contribute to improving the quality and depth of data used in AI models. Through what it calls “data unions” Streamr wants to give internet users the ability to sell their data. The first data union called Swash, created by third-party company, uses a browser extension to aggregate user data. The bundled data eventually becomes available for sale on its marketplace. Users retain the right to exclude any data that they’re not willing to share.
What’s interesting here is that anyone can set up a data union to generate a specific type of data — based on gender or race, for instance. Additionally, collecting data in unions makes them more usable and valuable as opposed to individual entities. Such a system could potentially bring data used in AI closer to reality in certain areas.
Submitted June 19, 2020 at 09:01PM by DoItYrselfLiberation https://ift.tt/2Yilo9i
