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title: "Timeline photos Erik Voorhees, in collaboration with a bunch of other…"
date: 2024-05-10
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# Timeline photos Erik Voorhees, in collaboration with a bunch of other…

*May 10, 2024 · Facebook*

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Erik Voorhees, in collaboration with a bunch of other open source AI projects/companies, has just launched an important new AI service called Venice.\
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\[Links in comment. I generated the attached image with Venice. The free version is censored (no sexy stuff), but apparently you can turn it off with the pro version.\]\
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From the announcement thread:\
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\"Today, we launch private, permissionless AI for the purpose of unfettered civilizational advancement.\
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\@TryVenice\
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Venice is similar to \@OpenAI, \@Grok, \@AnthropicAI\'s Claude, but w/o all the Orwellian stuff.\
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• Venice doesn't spy on you\
• Venice doesn't censor your conversation\
• Venice doesn't inject bias, safetyism, or political propaganda\
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Venice gives you direct and unfiltered communication with machine intelligence.\
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The big centralized AI companies watch everything you do, control what is said, and share your info with themselves and 3rd parties (advertisers, hackers, governments).\
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Venice protects you by not endangering you in the first place; there is no-one in the middle to censor, record or control your conversation.\
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You can use \@TryVenice for\
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• Text chat\
• Image generation\
• Code development\
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Venice leverages the leading open-source LLM models for generative AI. You'll find them competitive with the big centralized models for many use cases.\
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Private\
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Venice does not "review" your conversations; everything is private. Prompts (and the AI's responses) are end-to-end encrypted through a proxy server, and never persist on Venice servers. Your info is encrypted and stored only locally in your browser.\
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Uncensored\
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Venice doesn't censor the underlying open-source models that power it (though each model differs in its own training and boundaries).\
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We treat you as an adult, capable of using information technology without paternalism.\
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Free speech = human flourishing\
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For Pro Accounts, Venice lets you modify the parameters and boundaries of the conversations through direct access to the System Prompt, something that none of the centralized providers offer.\
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You can use Venice even without an account, in less than five seconds, from anywhere on earth via desktop or mobile.\
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No download required or software to install. No restrictive licensing terms. Just easy and accessible AI for all humanity.\
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The GPU's that power Venice are sourced from an array of providers, always tending toward those which are the most decentralized, private, and permissionless.\
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Venice is part of the open-source Morpheus network for permissionless AI.\
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We\'re building on the shoulders of giants: ht/t to\...@huggingface, \@NousResearch, \@OpenRouterAI, \@ollama, \@Meta, \@MistralAI, \@StabilityAI, \@MorpheusAIs, \@hyperbolic_labs, \@akashnet\_\
and many others for kicking off an open-source AI renaissance.\
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Venice is our attempt to make permissionless, open-source AI so easy, fun, fast, and powerful that there's little reason to go back to the centralized, permissioned alternatives.\
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Reduce friction = increase adoption\
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Venice consists of myself, our COO \@TeanaTaylor\
formely of \@HSBC, \@Circle, and \@Binance, our potent anon CTO, and a small, supremely talented team.\
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Why is a team of crypto folks building an AI app? Really you should read the full blog.\
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But succinctly, as we believe in the importance of decentralizing money, so too do we believe in the importance of decentralizing mind.\
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Machine intelligence is too powerful and important to be monopolized by any company, organization, or government. The regulatory pressure on centralized companies will get continually more heavy-handed.\
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Crypto people understand this. The AI people are starting to.\
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While Venice is not a crypto product, nor confined to America, it is architected upon the crypto ethos, and quite radically American: imbued with unapologetic sovereignty for the individual.\
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But regardless of the ideology behind it, Venice is for everyone.\
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You can \@TryVenice for free, no account needed, and let us know how we can make it even better.\
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ad intellectum infinitum\"
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