AI is very much a technology that thrives and enables top-down centralized control,

whereas crypto is a technology that's all about bottom-up decentralized cooperation.

One of the points of NFTs was to support the artists.

Yes.

But if the artists themselves are now machine learning models, then who exactly are we supporting?

One of the things that will become important in a world where

anyone can participate online

is to be able to prove that you are human

for various different purposes. If we're going to incentivize people to contribute data,

basically we're going to incentivize people to create fake data

so they can get paved.

Yeah, so we have to have some sort of a mechanism

to make sure that the data you're

contributing is authentic.

Hello everyone and welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is your host Stef Smith,

but today I'm passing the baton back to longtime host Sonal Choxi.

This of course is also a crossover episode from our sister podcast, Web3 with A16ZZ which Sonel now hosts.

There are few technologies over the last few years that have quite captured the zeitgeist

like crypto in AI.

So in today's episode, Sono sits down with guests Ali Ya and Dan Bonais to explore the ways in which these two

emerging technologies oppose, yet also beautifully augment one another.

And they attack this from both directions.

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