if FOSS AI folks need FOSS data, then it seems they need to recruit people to generate data. maybe it will even force them (them!) to finally sit down and make

if FOSS AI folks need FOSS data, then it seems they need to recruit people to generate data. maybe it will even force them (them!) to finally sit down and make a viable Reddit alternative. but more seriously, if data becomes a bottleneck there are trivial ways to have more data. from crowdsourcing to forming a foundation getting universities and other stakeholders onboard and negotiating fees. and somewhere along the way on this spectrum there's the option to simply wait, or work on the problem of learning, on generating better training data from existing data, and so on.