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An Open Letter from Dataspheres AI: Building a Safe Corner of the InternetHello to our community,Dataspheres AI is a grassroots movement that challenges th...
An Open Letter from Dataspheres AI: Building a Safe Corner of the Internet Hello to our community, Dataspheres AI is a grassroots movement that challenges the conventional corporate business model. We are building this because we believe a resource for community and safety should never be controlled by third-party corporate interests, agendas of power, or the unnecessary accumulation of capital distributed to only a select few. We have all seen the progression of deep surveillance from tech companies that primarily profit off our data. These entities have gone beyond simple advertising; they have crossed reckless societal boundaries and treated our private lives as a commodity to be distributed to the highest bidder. In many cases, this data is weaponized to push political agendas and propaganda, with influential operations now documented in over 81 countries. This infiltration of corporate America at scale has forced many leaders to protect their stock value and toxic corporate contracts more than the communities they should be serving. Research shows that "shareholder primacy"—the idea that a company’s only goal is to maximize investor wealth—often suppresses the pro-social instincts of a business in favor of market demands. That is not a world we want to live in. We firmly believe we can do better business than the "freemium" platforms where the majority of society has no idea what is actually being done with their data. Why We Are Not For Sale Dataspheres AI will never be a publicly traded company swayed by stakeholders or public opinion on items that have nothing to do with our core mission. We focus solely on creating the best group research and intelligence platform. We value truth, transparency, and protecting each other from harm and abuse. We are carving out our own "safe corner" on the internet—what researchers sometimes call the "cozy web". This is a place for depressurized conversation, free from the predatory behaviors of the "dark forest" of the mainstream web, where tracking bots and trolls make it unsafe to be authentic. Because we are not controlled by VCs or any special entity other than ourselves, we can prioritize your safety over a share price. We cannot be bought because we are not for sale. The Reality of Sustainability We are highly skilled professionals who want to help advance society away from the toxic environment ushered in by ultra-rich surveillance entities. However, building a robust ecosystem of tools for collaboration and data collection requires significant resources. Hosting, compute power, and labor all come at a cost. In 2025, operating even a medium-scale AI platform can cost between $10,000 and $30,000 per month just for infrastructure, with average organizational AI spending rising 36% this year alone. To run a sustainable business that doesn’t sell your data to the highest bidder, we have decided to be fully transparent about our costs and what we do with our profits. Instead of feeding a "shadow text" of data that only corporations can see, we are re-investing in you. The Ambassador Program: A Win-Win To run a business at scale, we must maintain operations and payroll, but we also need to continuously invest in the future. That means re-investing in our community. Our platform bakes in an attribution algorithm that finds how much you’ve helped this company grow. We allocate our profit margins to fund our Ambassador Program, creating a virtuous cycle where your success directly drives the platform’s defensibility. Research confirms that referred community members are often worth 25% more in long-term value because they share a deeper alignment with the mission. This is a win-win: we share lump-sum profits with the community while maintaining a highly focused, sustainable business. A Foundation of Love and Respect Dataspheres AI is powered by two individuals—a husband and wife who are passionate about their community and concerned about the environment and future social landscape for our children. We think there is a way to challenge the social and corporate norms designed to enable oligarchs. We know that powerful entities may look to disrupt our community-driven discipline because it disrupts their extractive business model. If you don't want to become collateral damage of special corporate interest or political propaganda then stand with us . Together, we will carve out a better and sustainable way for one another, built on a foundation of community, love, respect, and truth. Thank you for being with us, Dataspheres AI Works cited The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Wikipedia, accessed February 13, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism Industrialized Disinformation: 2020 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation - DemTech - University of Oxford, accessed February 13, 2026, https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2021/01/CyberTroop-Report-2020-v.2.pdf Full article: The Limits of Computational Propaga