The GTI Label — this product's ethical and social footprint.
Weighted under the Labour first profile. 2 declared components across 2 layers.
The product itself
How this product scores on its own merits — its licence, ownership and openness — separate from the stack it's built on.
Flags
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Amazon Web Services concentration
Hyperscaler chokepoint — a handful of providers host much of the web.
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Meta (Llama trainer) labour
Documented concerns over data-labelling and content-moderation labour conditions.
By layer
Amazon Web Services
Meta (Llama trainer)
By axis
The score is the vector — each axis is scored on its own, then weighted into the number above. Open an axis to see the reasoning behind it.
Data sovereignty & surveillance
medium
8.3
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Where data lives and the surveillance capacity it grants. 5 = fully sovereign.
Messages are end-to-end encrypted, but rich metadata flows to Meta.
Environmental footprint
medium
25.0
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Energy source, hardware lifecycle, water/cooling. Follows provenance.
Local economic benefit
medium
0.0
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Does the spend stay in-region (5) or leave (1)?
Market concentration
medium
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Does using this reinforce a chokepoint or monopoly? 5 = no lock-in / many alternatives.
Openness & lock-in
medium
8.3
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Can you leave, and can others reach it? 5 = open access with no account required and easy data export; 1 = a walled garden — account-gated, proprietary, hard to export.
Phone-locked; no interoperability or data export.
Ownership model
medium
0.0
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Who benefits from ownership? Shareholder / private-equity extraction (1) vs worker-owned / nonprofit / state or public-good (5).
Owned by Meta; advertising-adjacent and shareholder-driven.
Software freedom (FOSS)
medium
8.3
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Is the software free & open-source, and under what licence? 5 = fully FOSS under an OSI-approved licence; 1 = proprietary / closed source.
Closed source.
Core managed services are proprietary and closed-source.
Releases notable OSS (React, PyTorch) but core products are closed.
Upstream labour
medium
25.0
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Chip fabrication, warehouse, data-labelling conditions. Follows provenance.
Similar labels
Other products in the same space, best score first.
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