Here’s a big promise: A new Kickstarter campaign aims to usher in the “return of the human internet.”
To Flaming Hydra’s lead editor Maria Bustillos, these disparate projects are “basically all one thing,” tied together by the goal of “protecting freedom of information” and fulfilling the “promise of the early internet, where you’re making information available to as many people as possible, while still protecting the right of artists and authors to make a living.”
Bustillos told me that these issues have been highlighted on Flaming Hydra itself, for example when Tal Levin wrote about finding countless AI-generated clones of his book on Amazon. By “creating an ecosystem that is based in people working together, who are offering their stuff in a context that is controlled and doesn’t allow” others to create and sell AI-generated clones, Bustillos said Flaming Hydra is “part of the human project.”
