Dear Investors,
Food. Creativity. Humanity. Stock ownership.
These are the definitions of the human experience. We must address these needs, as well as committing to consistent value capture for our investors.
I’m Avi Bagla, founder and Chief Ingestion officer of Cultivated Corpora. I am proud to announce our step out of stealth - Cultivated Corpora is launching our first Type to Pay Vending Machine, an innovative vending machine that lets you buy food with words.
Live today at Data Vandals Newsstand in New York City (Instagram).
Our state of the art, best in class vending machine uses natural language as currency; peckish humans see a glass box of high calorie, rapid consumption snacks, yearning for relief from their temporary hunger. Instead of cash, in this inflationary economic environment, we offer them the ability to pay with their own ingenuity. We give them 1 penny per typed word, and snacks cost up to 200 words.
These words then go into our innovative marketplace at Cultivated Corpora (cultivatedcorpora.com) where our valued customers (polite reader) are able to purchase our corpora at a cut rate of 10 dollars per word. If you are worried about other customers capturing this content, you also have the option to pay 20 dollars per word to purge the data from the database.
By providing sustenance to our users in exchange for their words, we’re able to promise that our training data is ethically cultivated.
And, our valued investors, the market has shown us that this is an incredibly viable business plan. AI behemoths like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have vacuumed the entirety of the internet in their quest for training data and even in recent days, we’ve heard about these same companies destroying rare books in order to quench their needs.
Their business plan has them replacing themselves - their pitch to consumers has been the inherent ability to write their stories, their code, their performance reviews, their essays, their emails - replacing the copious data that they had scraped before with data they can no longer train. While in the process of consumption, they’ve corrupted the very dataset with which they began.
Cultivated Corpora offers a different solution. By relying on the joy of vending machine snacks and requiring little to no operating capital, with a necessary markup that covers our business costs, we’re able to provide pure, human created data that will continue to become rarer as artificial intelligence expands.
Thank you,
Type to Pay has its first public run. Come experience how we provide scaled shareholder value:
Dates and Times:
Thu 11/12 2-8pm ET
Fri 11/13 12-8pm ET
Mon 11/16 12-8pm ET
Tue 11/17 10-2pm ET
Location: Data Vandals Newsstand, 51st and Lexington, Downtown 6 Platform
Avi Bagla is a creative technologist, comedian, and artist based out in Brooklyn. He specializes in a mix of physical and digital interactive art, with a focus on rethinking the way you consume the world around you. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Humidity Studios. Type to Pay was made possible by the generous support of Mozilla Foundation (via the Attention’s editor’s fellowship there last year).