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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    15 days ago

    Lol, AI firms trying to devour the entire internet for training data, discovers that it needs a way to ensure that it doesn’t train on its own output. So it pitches credentials as something to fight AI rather than to mark non-AI data as delicious for ingestion.

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      14 days ago

      And they’re gonna charge money for that!