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Erik Voorhees, a crypto OG, has launched Venice, a private, uncensorable, open-source competitor to OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT or Anthropic\u2019s Claude, powered by a decentralized crypto network.\xa0\nIn the episode, Erik and Venice\u2019s COO Teana Baker-Taylor delve into the problems with censorship and data in current AI agents, including how they create honeypots of information about users\u2019 search history for hackers, or that they can be absurdly politically correct, such as refusing to create images of Caucasian people. As they point out, there\u2019s also the risk that the companies managing them could be censoring the models to please the Chinese government, in order to access the market in that country. They talk about their plan for Venice to gain market share, considering that DuckDuckGo, a privacy-preserving competitor to Google, has a much smaller market share. And they explain why they intend for Venice to eventually use the compute of Morpheus, or other decentralized crypto-powered compute networks.\xa0\nThey also critique the SEC\u2019s current regulatory approach to crypto, calling it \u201ca joke.\u201d Additionally, they explore the concept of AI agents using cryptocurrencies as their primary currency.\nShow highlights:\n\nWhy Erik decided to move into artificial intelligence and merge it with crypto\n\nWhat problems decentralized AI would solve and why it's hard to solve sexist and racist views in LLMs\n\nThe differences between ChatGPT and other similar products and Venice AI\n\nWhy privacy is so important for users, according to Erik, and how Venice doesn't store the users' information\n\nHow central governments could manipulate information to their own benefit and how to avoid it\n\nWhether people will shift from using search engines to LLMs\n\nWhat Morpheus is and its goal to provide decentralized computation for AI\n\nHow Erik and Teana believe crypto and AI will continue to work together\xa0\n\nErik's and Teana's thoughts on some of the recent government actions against founders of crypto privacy services such as Samourai Wallet andTornado Cash\n\nWhy Erik believes that the SEC has become a joke\n\n\nVisit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com\nFirst Bits + Bips episode: Bits + Bips: Does Macroeconomics Point to a Potential Crypto Supercycle?\nThank you to our sponsors!\n\nPolkadot\n\nVaultCraft\n\nGuests:\n\n\nErik Voorhees, Founder and CEO of Venice AI\n\nPrevious appearances on Unchained:\n\nErik Voorhees and Cobie on Why FTX Loaned Out Customers\u2019 Assets\n\nWhy ShapeShift\u2019s Erik Voorhees Thinks Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism Is Bullshit\n\nShapeshift\u2019s Erik Voorhees on How Crypto Will Separate Money and State\n\n\nTeana Baker-Taylor, COO at Venice AI\n\nLinks\nPrevious coverage on Unchained of crypto/AI:\n\nWhen AI and Blockchain Meet, How Can Each Technology Benefit?\n\nThe Chopping Block: Why AI Will Change the Course of History in Crypto\n\n5 Use Cases of AI in Blockchain\n\nA Beginner's Guide to AI Tokens\n\n\nVenice AI:\n\nErik\u2019s thread announcing Venice\xa0\n\nThe Separation of Mind and State\n\nArchitecture:\n\nAbout Morpheus.Network\n\nMessari: What is Akash Network?\n\n\nLLMs:\n\nMIT Technology Review: LLMs become more covertly racist with human intervention\n\n\nChina Talk: Censorship\u2019s Impact on China\u2019s Chatbots - by Nicholas Welch\n\n\nRecent cases on privacy:\n\nCoinDesk: Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested and Charged With Money Laundering\n\n\nCointelegraph: DOJ\u2019s Tornado Cash arguments show \u2018obvious disdain for privacy\u2019 \u2014 Lawyer\n\n\nCNBC: North Korea crypto hacking activity soars to record high in 2023, new report shows\n\n\nReuters: Exclusive: UN experts investigate 58 cyberattacks worth $3 bln by North Korea\n\n\nErik\u2019s post on the right to have privacy\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices