AIArena: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized AI Training Platform
This addresses the issue of monopolistic control and biases in AI for developers and users, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing blockchain and decentralized concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of centralized control in AI development by proposing AIArena, a blockchain-based decentralized platform that democratizes AI training through on-chain incentives, with evaluation showing feasibility on a testnet.
The rapid advancement of AI has underscored critical challenges in its development and implementation, largely due to centralized control by a few major corporations. This concentration of power intensifies biases within AI models, resulting from inadequate governance and oversight mechanisms. Additionally, it limits public involvement and heightens concerns about the integrity of model generation. Such monopolistic control over data and AI outputs threatens both innovation and fair data usage, as users inadvertently contribute data that primarily benefits these corporations. In this work, we propose AIArena, a blockchain-based decentralized AI training platform designed to democratize AI development and alignment through on-chain incentive mechanisms. AIArena fosters an open and collaborative environment where participants can contribute models and computing resources. Its on-chain consensus mechanism ensures fair rewards for participants based on their contributions. We instantiate and implement AIArena on the public Base blockchain Sepolia testnet, and the evaluation results demonstrate the feasibility of AIArena in real-world applications.