On September 14th, the open-source AI platform Sentient released a white paper titled "OML: Opening the Era of AI Entrepreneurship." Today's AI model deployment comes in two paradigms: open and closed. Open models offer community-driven innovation and resist the trend of centralized AI companies controlling the world. Closed models, on the other hand (accessed through APIs), allow those centralized AI companies to directly monetize and control usage.

Sentient introduces a new paradigm where models can be open, monetizable, and loyal (OML). This new way of deploying AI models opens up new possibilities for open-source AI development and AI entrepreneurship.

The white paper summarizes Sentient's research on different OML approaches and details OML 1.0 – a method to incentivize users to report and pay for model use through data poisoning attacks and collateralization.