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0 pointswhateverboat21h ago0 comments

What's the solution apart from an identity providing service?

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I don't know of a solution. I don't think even identity verification will meaningfully solve this. People will get hacked, or provide their SEO-spamming agent with their own identity, or purposefully post fake videos under their own identity. As it becomes more normal to scan your ID to access random websites, it will also become easier to steal people's identities and the value of identity verification will go down.

intrasight20h ago

People don't get hacked - devices get hacked. So all we need is a better chain of trust between two people. This is not a technology development problem as much as a technology implementation problem. And a political problem

bigfishrunning20h ago

People get hacked -- a device could be flawless, but if a person is a victim of "Social Engineering" and hands the attacker a password, there's nothing the designer of the device could do about it.

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prox19h ago

Best thing I think of is domain names. Domains are tied to addresses and billing, and sites are people or businesses, with physical locations one can visit.

Maybe a good startup idea would be “local verify” , where you check locally for a client if the online destination is real.

nathanaldensr20h ago

Agreed. The sphere of trust around each of us will shrink back to only those in our physical proximity. Outside of that, no one can be trusted.

jjulius18h ago

Touching grass. Valuing in-person connections. Focusing on the community, meatspaces and actual people around you.

Getting off of the Internet and off of our devices. It's not just a solution to AI/LLMs modifying our reality but also a solution to [gestures wildly at the cultural, societal and global communication impacts of the past ~16 years].

This sentiment is unpopular, but it's true. Prioritize true connections and experiences.

Gigachad21h ago

I’m seeing a huge increase in companies requiring in person interviews now. Seems there is a real possibility the internet as we know it will be destroyed.

rkomorn20h ago

I think you might be right and I think I'll like some of the consequences and hate some of the others.

More in-person stuff feels like a win to me (and I say this as someone who probably counts as introverted).

Not being able to trust any online interactions anymore? Seems like a new height in what was already a negative.

Gigachad8h ago

Agreed. I don't think there is any saving the internet as a social space long term. And I'm not entirely sad about that either. I think a return to in person interaction, public social spaces, and a retreat from social media would do the world a lot of good.

Though there is a nightmarish possibility that people just accept this and willingly interact purely with bots, giving up all real relationships for AI ones.

dominotw20h ago

linkedin is completely destroyed now. There are tons of ai bots there but real humans are now fronts for AI. So you cant even trust content from from ppl you know.

identity serivce is not useful because that person might be a real person but they might just be a pipe to ai like we see on linkedin.

adithyassekhar21h ago

That's just shifting the problem not solving it.

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