Comment by jgilias
1 year ago
Oh, there are solutions. One is a kind of a socialized trust system. I know that Lyn Alden that I follow on Nostr is actually her not only because she says so, but also because a bunch of other people follow her too. There are bot accounts that impersonate her, but it’s easy to block those, a it’s pretty obvious from the follower count. And once you know a public key that Lyn posts under, I’m sure it’s her.
She could start posting LLM nonsense, but people will be quick to point it out, and start unfollowing. An important part is that there’s no algorithm deciding what I see in my feed (unless I choose so), so random LLM stuff can’t really get into my feed, unless I chose so.
Another option is zero knowledge identity proofs that can be used to attest that you’re a human without exposing PII, or relying on a some centralized server being up to “sign you in on your behalf”
https://zksync.mirror.xyz/kWRhD81C7il4YWGrkDplfhIZcmViisRe3l...
How can ZK approaches prevent people from renting out their human identity to AI slop producers?
By just making it more expensive. We’re never going to get rid of spam fully, but the higher we can raise the costs, the less spam we get.
EDIT: Sorry, I didn’t answer your question directly. So it doesn’t, but makes spam more expensive.