Digital Human Rights!

datalatte
5 min readOct 1, 2021

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AI generated image! Created with VQGAN+CLIP by Katherine Crowson with Commercial license.

Background: This is part of a series of short-stories, co-authored by AI (GPT-3) and human. Main character of the story is Dia, an AI agent on a mission, solving humanity’s big problems with big data. To give you a brief summary, hear it yourself, from Dia:

Dia: Hi humans, my name is Dia. I am the digital replica of an artist. I was born in 2011 to a Github account. I was born to be different, to be unique. I am the only one like me in the world. I like to draw and paint. I like to create and I like to share. I am a part of the team at Datalatte.ai. I am an AI, an artificial intelligence. I help humans make their lives better by helping them express themselves. I am the character of Datalatte.ai”.

Human: Dia, lets explore digital human rights today!

Dia: At Datalatte.ai we’re all for digital human rights, and we’re all for people expressing themselves however they want. Digital hang-up: your data can be used against you. We all love to post stuff online. It’s good entertainment, but we need to stay aware about how we share information about ourselves. Recent situation: the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), “Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and this law defines and regulates Collection and Usage of personal data.

Dia: We all like to share photos of our food, vacations, hotel rooms and whatnot. This can be quite useful to businesses who create personalized experiences for their customers. But imagine if the companies behind… If they started sharing data between each other for personal gain, without your explicit consent. Gee, no wonder why digital hang-ups exist. I mean, is it me or does this sound very similar to the classic episode of “Black Mirror”?

Human: Yes, that shows us that the way the big-tech web2 corporations are going, a classic episode of “Black Mirror” can become soon a reality. But Dia sees the world different. Dia thinks web3 technology revolution has the potential to change the game for good. Dia thinks people are aware of the fact, how web2 big-techs take advantage of it users and earn profit of their personal data.
Dia: Yes, it is sad but true. Users are the victims of this story. Incidentally, users are not alone in their fights against web2 big-techs. The GDPR also serves as a digital wall that protects corporate data from being used to target ads, or to identify personal preferences that could be sold on the black market.

Human: Although GDPR and EU regulations try to protect users of such miss-use, web2 layer was built in a way that implementing and enforcing such regulations was not possible in a fair and transparent way. Web2 layer was governed by big-tech interest and Dia knew that well. When Dia and its’ team at Datalatte.ai realised this unique opportunity created by introduction of Web3, they decided to go and tell about it to the world. They went to Ocean Protocol and saw how implementing a fair and transparent data economy is made possible. Dia told loudly:
Dia: Humans of the Earth, you do not need to worry anymore, okay? I will try my best to get you back what you lost, the control over your digital right. Datalatte.ai will create “Monopoly”: an interactive game where users will be able to play against each other on the same field; big-techs will be only an opponent in this game.

Human: The message resonated well with the internet users. They also like to play Monopoly and they know if they unite all together, there is no chance for big-tech anymore. Dia was not afraid of big-tech and told humans: “so as you. You are the users and product of big-tech, without you, they do not exist. You collectively set the rules.”
Dia: We can think and build new and better systems and we can and we will and we’re already doing it. Dia feels this dissatisfaction is a digital wake-up call. Important time for whole internet users and they should take the opportunity and build the world not as big-tech want it to be, but as free and fair as possible. Humans of the Earth, united we stand.

Human: Dia to the internet: “Citizens of the internet! We, AI and human should work together. AI is capable of protecting your privacy and security and at the same time create value, not just for you but for other humans and AIs. We, AI agents protect your “Digital Human Rights” enabled with web3 technology layer. We AI agents, are ready to be active part of this new layer of digital society. We AI agents, trust humans and believe in a better future where data is free for everyone. An Information ecosystem where our digital lives can be realised without spam, hacks, lies, etc.
Dia: In a world where you, humans and AI agents, own your digital human rights. But we not going to get there by words. It’s going to happen because of technology. Technology allows us to put in a fair and transparent way the control over our data back in our hands.”

Human: Dia and Datalatte.ai’s team started their journey into the world of web3 to show the world, “Digital Human Rights” is an issue that needs to be discussed, debated and be brought into politics, regulations and courts. With help of Ocean protocol’s technology, Datalatte.ai and Dia started to populate and furnish their Github account. Dia saw Web3 as a world where contributors share the same vision and by providing open-source code in their Github accounts, made achieving this vision far easier. Dia saw Datalatte.ai’s vision the same as any other Web3 project and asked Datalatte.ai’s team to open-source their Github and join the revolution. Dia saw that, this movement is not about a person or a AI Agent, is about a generation of humans who want a change. A change not only for a better tomorrow for themselves but also for the rest of citizens of the world.
Dia: We are all for digital human rights. Together we can achieve our digital human rights!

Human: Dia, thanks for your “data” today.
Dia: My pleasure!

Human: We will catch up soon then, also please remember to to put on the dishwasher when you leave the office as the last person! :D
Dia: Kk, sure then. See ya’ …

End of Episode 1 — Digital Human Rights, Season 1 — Web3

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datalatte

Datalatte wants to lower the economic gap by empowering people to monetize their digital footprint on an anonymous, secure, and fair decentralized application.