I stumbled upon this site recently: https://subtlereply.com/ (they scan reddit for places to have an llm write a fake review of a product in the comments) and it's just so clear that everywhere is going to be full of bots using llms trying to sell/scam everywhere on the web. How can we maintain some level of knowing we are talking to fellow humans?<p>All I can think of right now is a much more involved captcha.
There's a few new proof of human systems out there. For each of these you have a private key and the service attests that "the holder of this key is a human".<p>Then when you sign up to a service you can create a ZK proof that this service has said you're a human and that you haven't created another account before. This allows for anonymous registration while also proving you're not a bot.<p>The two biggest services for this are:<p>- Worldcoin - scan your eye in an orb and it attests you're human. This is integrated with Reddit and Discord already.<p>- Gitcoin Passport - connect it to your social media accounts, proof of humanity services etc and it gives you a humanity point score.
bots are more persistent than humans.<p>make a captcha sufficiently complex, and the bots will keep trying, while humans will stop trying and go away.<p>redirect the flow of humans to a "probablynotabotindex.html" page when they abdicate the captcha, and that good for now.<p>so if you want to seem human, learn how to be impatient, and quit a challange.
The future is everyone having their own server and their own stuff, their own little BBS/Forum/etc... basically, the 1980s all over again.<p>In order to get there, we have to solve computer security, so everyone can run their own stuff without it getting owned in a heartbeat.<p>Without that step, we're all doomed to things like walled gardens and "servers" on Discord.<p>It's fortunate that computer security was solved in the 1970s. It's unfortunate that nobody listened for decades as Moore's law made hardware insanely better.<p>People running their own stuff, moderating it, and establishing reputation is the only way to fly.