> I think that "quality" will be really, really hard to objectively measure in the near future as the whole world of digital information becomes tainted with applied statistical models which can do a reasonably good job of predicting what people perceive to be high-quality reasoning, answers, content.
That's the scariest thing I've heard today. Lol.
Even now, I think the proper use of grammar and spelling alongside assertive language has a lot of people fooled into thinking LLMs are actually intelligent. It's hard to explain to people how the LLMs know everything and understand nothing.
I've been bullish on the idea of using domains as identity for a long time. I think by using them as a universal ID you could build reputation and trust across the internet and that helps everyone a lot when trying to assess the reliability of information. If you add in attestations for factual info it gets even more interesting. Ex: GitHub attests user @john.example.com has 1000 commits to the XYZ project. Suddenly you have a more reliable way of ranking John's comments about XYZ as a topic, regardless of where they show up (as long as those identities are validated somehow).
If you look at that as "ranking people" and judge it in the context of being a valuable piece of input for LLMs/AIs, the big push for "better" identity systems like "Passwordless" start to look like a hell of a coincidence. My cynical side wonders if we'll see a push for validated (via government ID) identity systems. Something as simple as a "real human from Canada" tag would provide immense value for AI training (and marketing).
No matter what, I think AI is going to cause changes in the way online identity and reputation work. I think if it evolves into some kind of system with domains as identity it'll be decentralized and provide long term benefit. I think if we see something with verified IDs controlled by the current big tech companies it could devolve into something disappointing or even detrimental for the average user.
That's the scariest thing I've heard today. Lol.
Even now, I think the proper use of grammar and spelling alongside assertive language has a lot of people fooled into thinking LLMs are actually intelligent. It's hard to explain to people how the LLMs know everything and understand nothing.
I've been bullish on the idea of using domains as identity for a long time. I think by using them as a universal ID you could build reputation and trust across the internet and that helps everyone a lot when trying to assess the reliability of information. If you add in attestations for factual info it gets even more interesting. Ex: GitHub attests user @john.example.com has 1000 commits to the XYZ project. Suddenly you have a more reliable way of ranking John's comments about XYZ as a topic, regardless of where they show up (as long as those identities are validated somehow).
If you look at that as "ranking people" and judge it in the context of being a valuable piece of input for LLMs/AIs, the big push for "better" identity systems like "Passwordless" start to look like a hell of a coincidence. My cynical side wonders if we'll see a push for validated (via government ID) identity systems. Something as simple as a "real human from Canada" tag would provide immense value for AI training (and marketing).
No matter what, I think AI is going to cause changes in the way online identity and reputation work. I think if it evolves into some kind of system with domains as identity it'll be decentralized and provide long term benefit. I think if we see something with verified IDs controlled by the current big tech companies it could devolve into something disappointing or even detrimental for the average user.