Andrej explains why Grass needs your internet connection, not your personal data "Anyone joining the Grass network isn't actually sharing personal information or anything like that. I do feel like that ends up being this wide misconception" "Ultimately, what they're contributing is just internet bandwidth" "When AI labs need to build huge training datasets to train their AI models, the most important source for them is actually the internet. They need to go and read as much of the internet as possible" "We're living in a world right now where even though the internet's growing at an exponential pace, the rate at which it's shutting off to the public web is also growing at an exponential pace" "Basically a third of the internet right now is getting protected by Cloudflare. If any AI lab wants to scrape websites that have these types of anti-bot turned on, that is completely inaccessible to them" "Any website that sees an IP address belonging to any of the top frontier labs or any of the cloud providers nowadays is just blocking those" "Grass is a network of millions of residential internet connections" "What we've built is the ability for any AI lab to tap into millions of IP addresses so that all their crawling activity looks like real user activity, and websites display data that they would otherwise display to residential users" "This is all public data, by the way. Nothing behind login walls, nothing behind paywalls. This is all public data that should remain public"