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.
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
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.
2FA has tried to solve exactly this. Not many attacked people will hand over their password AND their phone. Yes I know, they might hand over one authentication code (and I know people who did exactly that)... We should also look into reducing the attack surface - if you get Instagram hacked you shouldn't get your Facebook hacked as well. But the current big tech centralization leads us to that single point of failure, because they don't care about the user's concerns only market grab. So... what now? Do we get the politics into this?
You're on the right path. As long as we continue to use email as a fallback to every other form of authentication, it will remain a single point of failure and a relatively weak one at that.
OP is still correct. No matter what, humans will remain the weakest link...it's in our nature to sympathize and every one of us has distracted/weak moments. It's just a matter of time; look at the guy who runs haveibeenpwnd...getting pwned.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Often when you are solving a problem, you are never solving a single problem at a time. Even in a single task, there are 4-5 tasks hidden. you could easily put agent to do one task while you do another.
Ask it to implement a simple http put get with some authentication and interface and logs for example, while you work out the protocol.
The lack of good tools to have good research notes with good search is kind of mind-boggling. I have reverted to having a website for myself, a private one that I run on my machine, using mkdocs which comes close to what I would want.
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