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As an interesting alternative, imagine that the site asked you to print out a random number on a piece of paper and (within a 2 hour window, for example) film y
by dane-pgp 5y ago
As an interesting alternative, imagine that the site asked you to print out a random number on a piece of paper and (within a 2 hour window, for example) film yourself holding it in front of a building or landmark that you claim is within 100 miles of your home.
You could cover your face during the filming, or temporarily affix the paper to some surface, like a tree, and then upload your video clip to a selection of randomly chosen existing members who would cross-reference your location with Google street view, and try to check that the image isn't a deep fake.
Of course people would eventually start offering a paid service of carrying out this process on behalf of the bot farmers, but the algorithm could demand that your filming location not be somewhere that a lot of people have already used for their recordings, which would push up the cost of someone trying to create multiple identities locally to them.
Also, offering this location spoofing service could be classed as (conspiracy to commit) fraud, and the risks of getting caught by going to a specific location at a specific time as part of a sting operation should be pretty high, and not worth being paid minimum wage for.
- dane-pgp 5y agoI don't know why this is such an unpopular idea. For comparison, people have implemented a "Proof of Humanity" system[0] which requires users to record a video of themselves holding up a key-derived number. This is very similar to my idea, except it relies on the uniqueness of faces rather than the cost of visiting a location. Both ideas seem imperfect, but obviously a system that links your ID to your face is less private than one which links your ID to a circle of radius 100 miles. It is also interesting to see that the system I linked to uses a "court" system among its members, where people are randomly picked to adjudicate claims about invalid IDs. There is even a system for claiming that a user has died and having their key revoked if they cannot prove they are alive. [0] https://www.proofofhumanity.id/ https://www.proofofhumanity.id/