Frankly, I think identification of LLM personas vs humans will be impossible. It's increasingly likely then that the rise of LLMs may introduce the decline of the internet as a way to connect with other humans. Soon nobody will want to take an internet entity seriously unless it can prove it's human. And I don't see any way to do that.
So maybe LLM fake entities will be the straw that breaks the Net's back as a social medium and propels us back into the physical world? I hope so.
While it's important to remain vigilant about the potential negative impact of LLMs, it's also important to remember the positive ways in which they can be used. Language models have the potential to revolutionize industries such as healthcare and education by analyzing vast amounts of data and providing insights that can improve people's lives.
Furthermore, I don't think that the rise of LLMs will necessarily lead to the decline of the internet as a social medium. Rather, it will likely lead to a greater emphasis on trust and transparency in online interactions. We may see the development of new technologies that enable people to verify the authenticity of online identities, or the rise of platforms that prioritize human-to-human interaction.
Overall, I believe that while there are challenges associated with the rise of LLMs, there are also opportunities for positive change. It's important to continue to monitor the development of these technologies and take proactive steps to ensure that they are used in a responsible and ethical manner.
Because I believe it's going to get harder and harder to figure out what's human and what's not.
Re what tipped me off: gonna stay security-through-obscurity on that for now :)
Tell it to talk like a typical HN'er, adopt a more robust and aggressive stance, and include five grammatical and spelling errors.
1. I can prove to a site that I am a human without the site getting any information from the proof about which specific human I am.
2. I can visit the site multiple times and prove to them that I'm the same human, without them getting any information from the proofs about which specific human I am.
3. Any third party site that is involved in the proof does not get any information about which site I trying to prove my identity to.
One way this could be done is by having ID sites that you are willing to prove your real identity to in a robust and way which certify your humanity to other sites in a way that has the three aforementioned properties.
Good candidates for running ID sites would be entities like major banks that most of us have already verified our real identity to in a robust way.
One way to do this might be something like this. When a site wants to check that I'm human they give me some random data, and I have an ID site that I have an account with such as my major bank do a blind signature of that data, using a blind signature system the allows the blinder to remove the blinding.
When I get back the signed blinded data, I remove the blinding and then send the data and unblinded signature back to the site I'm trying to prove my humanity to.
They see that the data is signed by my major bank's ID service, so know that the bank believes I'm human.
This problem has been coined “Digital Feudalism”. And medieval feudalism (or at least our popular conception of it) wasn’t driven by governments.