If everyone can sign their content, who verifies them as “real”?
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emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I wonder if the nft tech could be used to mark everything real with a proof of authenticity
Kissaki@beehaw.org 7 months ago
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
[deleted]ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Because it’s a centralized system owned by a sociopath billionaire gathering unchanging, personal details about swaths of the population using ye olde “for the greater good” adage.
emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
So again deleted comment accidentally omg. I very like this idea. It’s burdensome but every phone already has a scanner. I wonder about privacy though. Can it be anonymised like monero?
I imagine it is an opt in feature and then people can check to only show other verified humans in some kind of fediverse like network
Midnitte@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I guess blind people really aren’t human… (/s)
sonori@beehaw.org 7 months ago
How could that help at all? Seeing as the blockchain would have no way of telling the difference between human and Ai text, and if you could find a way to automatically verify that in way way that was so efficient you could expect all the text uploaded to the internet you could just run that program locally and not be beholden to people paying a fee to post anything to the internet.
emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I think there needs to be a verification process to get on blockchain. Some kind of reputation system maybe
sonori@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I can’t imagine any sort of verification system not being completely overrun by bots/people on fiver/ mechanical turk immediately unless you tied it to meatspace IDs in an know your customer sort of way, in which case you would definitely need a central organization to do said verification, which eliminates any possible need for a blockchain as said organization can just use a faster, far cheaper, and most importantly for this application editable database.
More to the point, no one doubts that an article published by one organization was secretly published by another, but rather that they secretly used AI in the writing process, which also negates the system because that organization is never going to tell you which articles are done by AI, and any sort of reporting system for the entire organization or a specific author is just going to be immediately and constantly used to review bomb.
emmie@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Yeah it is very difficult problem, fun stuff