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To fight AI, we need 'personhood credentials,' say AI firms (www.theregister.com)

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AI firms propose 'personhood credentials' to combat online deception, offering a cryptographically authenticated way to verify real people without sacrificing privacy—though critics warn it may empower governments to control who speaks online.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We had captchas to solve that a while ago. Turns out, some people are willing to be paid a miserable salary to solve the captchas for bots. How would this be different? The fact of being a human becomes a monetizable service which can just be rented out for automated systems. No "personhood" check can prevent this.

[–] restingboredface 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I read somewhere too that AIs were actually better than people at captchas.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Captchas are good for slowing down bots scraping data. Better than nothing...