Mozilla announced the three winners of its “Responsible AI Challenge,” with the champion featuring an anti-AI watermark tool taking home $50,000.
The company said the competition was held to encourage AI creators to produce “trustworthy AI solutions,” which resulted in hundreds of entries. The works were judged by AI academics, developers, and entrepreneurs, who picked the three winners that the company announced.
The first price was bagged by Sanative AI, which created a tool that can provide anti-AI watermarks. The creation, which gave its team the $50,000 prize, is said to be effective in protecting images and artwork against diffusion models that will use them as training data.
The Kwanele Chat Bot came in second place, giving it a $30,000 cash prize. Unlike other conventional bots, the creation is specifically designed for “women in communities plagued by violence.” Specifically, it allows easy access to help and is meant to “ensure the collection of admissible evidence.”
Last is the Nolano, a trained language model employing natural language processing to run on laptops and smartphones. It received a total of $20,000 from Mozilla.
According to the company, it aims to aid the winners in developing and refining their projects. As such, aside from the monetary prize, the competition winners will also receive mentorship and access to its resources and communities.
