How will we know that we are reading something authentic written by the original author vs something that has been altered and rewritten? This may have been a problem in the pre-AI world as well, but with the ease one can generate text now I wonder if there is a much greater risk.

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Friend, PGP signed messages were around in the 90s. Key signing parties. Web of trust.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Blockchain = keysigning + timestamping

    Which version is earliest is relevant in this use-case.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Ohhh I get you then. Instead of checking against an author’s key, and building a distributed web of trust between trusted authors, you build a system that requires everyone collaborate on one shared chain of signatures.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Sure—the point I was trying to make is that it still needs to be done piecemeal, while a blockchain can verify a collection of works as a collection (that is, it not only verifies that each work is unaltered, it verifies it in the context of other related works).

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