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.

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    52
    ·
    4 months ago

    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.