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AI is a transformative technology with an intrinsic tendency to consolidate power.

Widespread access to AI agents has enabled everyday people to make decisions based on real-world data, enhancing decision-making. However, it creates an incentive for bad actors to influence agents by fabricating convincing information. Ironically, the same agents facilitating research also make it cheap to mass produce authentic-looking content posing as genuine experiences.

The power concentration cycle begins here. Capital buys compute; compute buys the ability to generate synthetic opinions faster. Finally, these fabricated opinions sway financial decisions, capturing value that would not exist otherwise. This cycle concentrates capital; it runs because misrepresentation costs nothing. Capital's value ultimately rests on trust, and trust rests on genuine experience, but nothing today makes fabrication pay a price for eroding that foundation. Can such a self-reinforcing cycle be constrained? We believe so, but only if people stand up for themselves by coordinating with each other.

Orvelt exists to restore power back to firsthand experiences.

Our coordination technology broadcasts your opinion to other humans, including agents acting on their behalf. We ensure your opinion garners the attention it deserves. Fabricated opinions can now manifest as a real cost to capital because of lost trust. Institutions that fabricate opinions must answer to the people.

Institutions face the same trust problem from the other side: how do you know the feedback you're getting is real? Through our verification mechanisms, Orvelt enables reliable research and identifies true problems faced by clients or constituents. Trust can then be conveyed through proofs to individuals, communities, and the agents making decisions on their behalf.

The next decade will move fast, and decisions will need to be made even faster. The answers people get from Google or ChatGPT should represent true experiences rather than targeted fake opinions placed by unscrupulous marketers. But something worse is brewing on the horizon: significant funding is being poured into “simulating” human behavior, processes in which no human input is necessary. If you don't make your own opinions heard now, opinions fabricated to sound like you, built on your data, will take their place. The people and institutions meant to serve you will start listening to those instead.

The time to protect human opinions is now. Keep expressing yourself, and while you're at it, we will ensure your voice is protected.