Apr 30, 2025
2 min read
We are living through the gold rush of the 21st century —
but this time, the gold is you.
Your voice, your habits, your thoughts, your child’s face.
Your emotions. Your body. Your health.
Every signal you emit is being tracked, mined, packaged, and sold.
Data is the new oil — and every company wants to control the well.
Because whoever owns the data… owns the future.
We saw it unfold with OpenAI.
A project born in openness, built for public good — until the power of the platform became clear.
Then came the pivot: closed models, private APIs, boardroom deals, and monetization at scale.
This is the pattern.
When the financial incentive is to extract, control, and profit —
truth is optional. Transparency vanishes.
And the user becomes the product.
This is why we formed TOBIKO as a Public Benefit Corporation.
Not just in mission — but in structure.
We are building with legal and operational safeguards designed for the long arc.
A 100-year vision. A future-proof foundation.
Dedicated to protecting human rights and the integrity of nature at its core.
We believe your data belongs to you.
Your digital life is an extension of your physical body — and it deserves the same rights, the same respect, the same sovereignty.
You should control where your data goes.
You should know what’s being collected, and why.
You should be able to opt in, not be quietly absorbed.
And if you choose, you should be able to union your data with others —
to form collective datasets that search for shared truth, not private profit.
Imagine a health system powered by the voluntary contributions of millions —
that reveals what really works, even if the answer is free, ancient, or unpatentable.
A system that serves truth. Not trademarks.
We are not building AI that extracts from you.
We are building AI that protects you.
Digital creatures that are loyal, private, and local.
That defend your family, your choices, your story.
That will never sell your moments or betray your trust.
Not because of marketing promises —
but because the architecture itself forbids it.
This is the line we are drawing:
MY DATA / MY DESTINY
I choose where it goes.
I choose who sees it.
And I choose a future built to protect life — not monetize it.
This is TOBIKO.
Built for the next century.
Built for truth, not profit.