Grandma’s Secret Jell-O Recipe
Remember those childhood days when Grandma would pull out her "magic" Jell-O recipe — handwritten on yellowing paper?
She’d say the secret was “a little love and one special ingredient,” the kind no one dared ask about.
Now imagine an AI scanning that note, analyzing her technique, and reproducing the dessert perfectly...
Would it still be Grandma’s recipe — or just data?
❓Open Question to SSI Companies and AI Policy Experts
As developers, we’re trying to build responsibly in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. But we face a critical gap in understanding:
How should we treat "culturally embedded secrets" — like a unique recipe, a visual design, or a creative workflow — when they are captured, reproduced, or optimized by multimodal AI?
What guidance can you offer to builders who want to respect ownership, but operate in a world where AI can copy without even intending to?
We need intuition and shared sense-making about what’s fair, what’s ethical, and what should be protected — even if it was never formally patented.
We’d love to hear from you.
From lawyers, ethicists, founders, researchers — anyone shaping the future of SSI.
Help all to build wisely.
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