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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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No. If somehow someone starts to try that is as easy as digitally signing the original documents.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It’s a pity that blockchain technology is so intertwined with crypto—it would make a great anti-AI check. As in, a way for a decentralized community to maintain an expanding collection of information while efficiently verifying that no existing works have been altered.

    Sure, you can sign individual documents—but then for each document you need a separate channel to verify the original signature.

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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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    What is authentically and originally written is impossible for ai to replace. Write with a quill and ink via candlelight. What is possible is editing. Take your comfort where you find it there. Editing has been changing original manuscripts for centuries for better and for worse

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    No. We are not.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Same way as always? Consider the source.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I can imagine the EU mandating AI in the browser and social apps. To keep the kids safe, ofcourse.

    It will scan all the content, and modify it to a safe version, for your benefit.

    "Voting started for Catalan referendum on independance The X factor Spain!"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not yet. But soon (10y maybe in my guess)

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