A strategy to gain builders, users, and adoption for Medusa is to pitch application ideas that involve Medusa to hackathon participants

Upcoming Hackathons

Filecoin Hackathons Homepage

Upcoming Filecoin Hackathons

Specific Events

Space Warp - January 23rd

ETHDenver - February 24th - March 1st

Ideas

ChatGPT browser extension

• Add two buttons to https://chat.openai.com/chat
• “Export to Filecoin” - saves chat history to Filecoin in JSON format
• “List on Medusa” - Encrypts content with medusa and lists for sale on https://demo.medusanet.xyz/

Example user scenario for “Export to Filecoin”

So how I use chatGPT is similar to how I use a search engine. Meaning I have a conversation usually about a single or related topic and I get a lot of information back. When I want to start researching a new topic, I reset the thread in order to reset the context of the chatbot.

I could copy-paste the previous thread in order to save my conversation, but it’s clunky (formatting is messed up and hard to understand later).

The extension would add a button to the page “export to Filecoin”, which saves the conversation in some sort of well-formatted JSON/markdown.

Justification for why it could win a Filecoin-themed hackathon

1. Relevance to actual users - I think ChatGPT is one of the fastest growing software products of all time (something like 1mil new users in less than a week). And there’s likely a big overlap with crypto users (early tech adopters)
2. Aligns with the Filecoin mission - fill Filecoin with useful data. ChatGPT conversations are clearly very useful/valuable, otherwise the service wouldn’t be offered for free. The training data is valuable to OpenAI
3. Decentralized creator economy - potential huge use-case for web3 due to platform/censorship risk
4. Built on Filecoin with Medusa - decentralized storage and access control are key to a decentralized information/data economy

Why would people buy/sell ChatGPT conversations?

1. Prompting is an art/skill and the ability to prompt will only get more important as the language models get more sophisticated
2. ChatGPT won't be free forever and the compute is pretty costly to run at the moment. Let's say I primed the AI by giving it a corpus of 100 research papers in cryptography. That might cost ~$50 ... but I'll sell the output for $0.10
3. Why do people buy these AI-generated avatars? They also could create it themselves, but it's actually not that straightforward to accomplish
4. Training Data - conversation prompts and answers may be valuable for other companies training language models