An NGO for digital freedom of thought

Disclosure: I'm the chairman of this association and we're in the founding process (legal stuff, besides that we're settled).

Also: I'm writing this manually, not via AI. Out of respect for this subreddit. I don't mean to spam here, but perhaps the information / opportunities I share here are relevant?

"Second Circuit, Association for digital freedom of thought" is an NGO that is meant to support not only self-determined use of AI but also encourages open source software use for governments, companies and of course also private people.

We're operating a relatively large Discord community of the same name for more than half a year now and we were originally founded because of the ChatGPT 4o situation, but now we're observing that many former "corpo-rat AI" users are moving towards both large Chinese models and also self-hosted.

Our website is explicitly not tracking and we're not earning any money, I just want to present what we do here and invite people to consider joining us.

Please don't see this as spam, we really mean it honestly and only want to create an NGO that pushes back against all the things going wrong in the AI space. It's a project that comes from our hearts.

Also: all our software, and this will be part of our statutes, will strictly be released under open source licenses (mostly GPLv3 / AGPLv3) and we do everything so people can self host what we create.

Find us here:

https://secondcircuit.io

~Chris Tidesson