I slightly hate myself for suggesting it, but are you essentially describing NFTs?
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KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.
And? There’s already way too much data online to read or watch all of it. We could just move to a “watermark” system where everyone takes credit for their contributions. Things without watermarks could just be dismissed, since they have as much authority as an anonymous comment.
Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s called a “name”.
Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Mid journey and the like have already been caught creating shutterstock watermarks in images. Future models might be able to fake specific watermarks well.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Not like that. A server name that can be authenticated. Like when you receive an email from your bank (in the metadata), you know it’s legitimate. Each organization can set up their own server to host things they vouch for. With ActivityPub it can be viewed elsewhere with the guarantee that it’s from a trusted source.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 4 months ago
[deleted]princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
(because “save as” isn’t available on “modern” websites)
I think this is also more of a mobile issue with apps more than just websites. Like, hence why those screenshots are so often from phones. Generally one’s that are more obviously from a computer are social media posts, presumedly to facilitate sharing on other platforms easier.
Because on desktop, even if a website doesn’t allow it, using the dev inspector usually allows you too. I wonder if it would be possible to create an extension/userscript that automates that on hostile websites.
millie@beehaw.org 4 months ago
This just makes me think of eBaum’s world.
match@pawb.social 4 months ago
but if we all join hands and sing this song, then our call will reach the sky…
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
That’s the idea behind OpenAI’s Worldcoin.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Why would anyone pay for the service? Having a “name” is free, and that dumb worldcoin only works for people. It can’t work for governments or businesses.
ActivityPub is actually a good way to authenticate things. If an organization vouches for something they can post it on their server and it can be viewed elsewhere.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
I think the idea of WorldCoin is to have a “wallet” linked to a single physical person, then you can sign any work with your key, that you got by proving you are a real person.
IMHO, the coin part is just a hype element to get people to sign up for the password part.
As for ActivityPub, I don’t see how it helps with anything. An organization vouching for something, can already post it on their web, or if they want a distributed system, post it on IPFS.
Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I am waiting for people to start getting both public and hidden authentication tattoos, so they can prove generative images aren’t actually them.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
How would that work?
AIs learn from existing images, they could just as well learn to reproduce a tattoo and link the pattern to a person’s name. Recreating it from different angles, would require more training data, but ultimately would get there.
Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 4 months ago
For public ones, depending on what people started getting, it’d really strain the AIs. You could go in like 1 or two ways, probably different people getting both.
Something very uniform but still unique, like a QR code kind of deal, AIs would hallucinate the crap out of that. Or abstractions, like people do to change the way the shape of their face to combat facial recognition.
For private ones, just don’t ever get it photographed, any image showing that area without it would be probably fake.