Biometrics seems like an obvious solution (what do we have that bots don’t?) but it seems most of the companies trying to use this this lean on some centralized database of everyone’s biometric info.
Worldcoin’s orb, for example, is pretty egregious. “Give us your eye scan and we’ll give you a crypto token, and maybe maybe you’ll get UBI someday”
I still think biometrics could be part of the answer, just not like that. Maybe the solution is some system that only has to prove *a* person is behind an action at any given "interaction time," without submitting personal data to a giant database.
How do we actually solve this long-term? What’s the least dystopian way to prove “a human is here”?
As bots get better and better, how are we going to know who's human online?
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We won’t
The way people are outsourcing all their critical thinking to LLMs I don’t even think the majority care. Think the more conscious people will seek connection more in the real life
Biometrics, turned into 1s 0s is just a long password.
How, going forward, will we differentiate between bots online and actual people? As bots continue to get more convincing, we’re putting our online spaces more and more at risk if we don’t have a reliable way of achieving that differentiation. But how can we achieve that without putting biometric data (or some other kind of data that serves this purpose) in the hands of some company?
Requiring a person just makes people hire sweatshop workers like those captcha farms
I think there’s a lot of money invested into the assumption that we *won’t* know who’s who online.
I’m a real person not a bot. Honest, I swear! Beep doo beep
Why, with another Sam Altman startup of course
https://world.org/orb
I mean I got accused this week of not only being a bot but a hateful bot. Some people already can’t tell. (This is something a bot might say).
I think the problem is well documented and the solution is clear. There is really only one logical choice.
Bladerunners.
Some sort of blockchain based identity verification maybe?
With the number of people on Reddit who can’t discern between a scripted video and something authentic, I don’t think the bots need to work too hard, honestly.
With the advent of AI,. I’m going to have to amend my saying: Trust none of what you hear and none of what you see.
You don’t need to keep all AIs off platforms in an airtight manner so much as make the process of *flooding* platforms painful.
Spelling mistakes. There will be a time when there will be a sigh of relief if we see somebody write “could of”. That time though, is still very, very far away.
To me this is just further reason to go back to internets not real and doubt everything you see/hear on it.
How do we solve it? I don’t think we’re going to. We’re not going to know who’s human and who’s not. We’re about to go back to a world where you can really only believe what you can see and hear with your own eyes and ears, in person, physically right in front of you. And maybe not even then.