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   "text": "Providing investment advice without compensation makes a person less likely to fall within the IAA definition of investment adviser, but the SEC construes compensation for advisory services broadly, which narrows the practical value of that limit.",
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   "text": "Because the total supply of DAO tokens is pre-determined in code, dilution by central administrators such as government officials or self-interested or biased executives is impossible.",
   "abstract": "because the total supply of tokens is pre-determined in the DAO code, dilution by central administrators such as government officials or self- interested or biased executives/supervisors/CEOs is impossible, which further illustrates the power of blockchain structures such as the DAO.",
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   "text": "The author proposes a decentralized, Mechanical Turk style data production model in which individual contributors are directly compensated for generating, refining, or annotating text data.",
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   "text": "Transparent DAO governance lets platforms compensate contributors according to demonstrated expertise and reputation, which mitigates the exploitative labor practices associated with centralized annotation services.",
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