Sign Everything - AVC

This is a super interesting idea from Wilson. Digitally signing things, particularly emails, has been around for a while but never really caught on. In general, we can rely that the email that appears from me actually is. However, as Wilson suggests with advances in AI this may become a bigger issue.

So what do we do about this world we are living in where content can be created by machines and ascribed to us?

I think we will need to sign everything to signify its validity. When I say sign, I am thinking cryptographically signed, like you sign a transaction in your web3 wallet.

I've pondered this a bit. As someone that has written a blog for 20 years, and a newsletter for 5, I clearly have enough written text on the Internet that you could train an AI to specifically author text in a way that sounds like it was from me. In a future where AI models are not just powerful, but readily available to mimic anyone with enough training information, we are going to have a problem with authenticity.

Using crypto capabilities to sign messages is a great answer to this. I'd love to see this built into various publishing services that I use. Combining that all with the identity capabilities, you can have a way to know that the text you are reading is truly from the author.

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