We launched Kled 6 weeks ago as a data marketplace for everyday people. Users upload personal content like camera rolls, dashcam footage, homework, POV recordings, and original music, and we pay them for it.
While AI companies scrape public data to train their models, we’re building a platform that compensates users and gives AI labs access to licensed, high-quality data.
The product took off quickly. We did over 20 million impressions on Twitter, more than 10,000 people signed up, petabytes of data were uploaded, and we’ve paid out over $300,000 to users.
Every file uploaded is automatically classified and made searchable so AI companies can instantly license the exact datasets they need.
Over the next five weeks, we’re doubling down on our labeling operations and hiring top AI engineers. We’ve raised over $2 million in venture capital at a $40 million valuation. High pay and high equity. Email avi@kled.ai
It's a reasonable idea. Certainly it makes sense that AI companies need training data and people should have a way to sell that data to them. That said, given that the government seems to be moving in a "copyright does not apply to AI" direction, I would not want to putting my eggs in an "AI companies will pay for data" basket.
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Backed how? Are these companies endorsing your product? Are they customers? Do you have employees who worked for them?
It's funny I had a similar idea but with dashcams, for the automotive industry. You could pay people to install additional cameras to there cars and pay them by the miles driven. I'm sure car manufacturers would love this training data.
Paid in their own crypto… https://x.com/useKled/status/1932778949051838827