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selectivelyyesterday at 4:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

An attestation-like system to detect humanity at time of post is absolutely for useful online spaces in the era of AI slop.

The writing style of the author is very annoying.


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MiddleEndianyesterday at 4:43 PM

And people should be free to pick and choose whether they want to use sites that do that or not. Whatever hacker news does seems to be fine for me, and I did not need to verify my ID in any way (even though it's very easy to figure out who I am from this profile)

HWR_14yesterday at 6:18 PM

Until people hit "attest" and then copy the text from ChatGPT.

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goda90yesterday at 4:35 PM

It could be done with anonymous credentials though. No tracing to who the human is.

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