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Consent Needs a Creator-Facing Control Surface

Consent Needs a Creator-Facing Control Surface Consent is not meaningful if the person behind the voice cannot see what the system is doing.

  • Visibility is key for creator control over voice recordings
  • SAG-AFTRA contract requires explicit consent for digital replica use
  • Creator dashboard should link consent to product activation and compensation

You Can't Test Money Controls With a Free Model

Every budget gate in my v0.2.0 field test was green. Every spend-velocity guard passed. Every tenant cap held. Every ROI flag was clean. All of it was green-on-vacuum.

  • Free model fails to test budget controls
  • Zero-cost model renders gates untestable
  • Opt-in priced profile fixes test design

PlantCare Adventure AI

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built I built PlantCare Adventure AI, an open-source AI companion designed to get people off the screen…

  • PlantCare Adventure AI encourages outdoor activities over screen time
  • Open-source AI companion uses Python, Streamlit, and Gemma model
  • Hacktoberfest challenge recognized it as Best Use of Gemma project

Spec, Hash or Guess: Can LLMs Keep Spain's Tamper-Proof Invoice Ledger?

This is a submission for the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge From 2027, every invoice issued in Spain has to come from software that writes VeriFactu records.

  • Nine language models tested on VeriFactu record specification
  • Seven models accurately generated hash text for all records
  • Gemma 4 31B most cost-effective at $0.14 for 100% accuracy

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