Simple technical solution that requires no AI: sign your content and stake your reputation (i.e. your body of signed content) when you publish something new. T

Simple technical solution that requires no AI: sign your content and stake your reputation (i.e. your body of signed content) when you publish something new. The issue is that we need a reliable way of determining who said what. Where who may be a person or an AI. The distinction is actually not that important. But we do want to prevent people impersonating each other. Or AIs impersonating people. Or AIs pretending to be real persons. Especially people with reputations or AIs without one. The issue is reputability is very easy to fake because we don't sign our work. There's no AI that can reliably tell any of that apart without producing false positives or false negatives. Both are bad and erode trust. What does signing achieve? - it's simple. We've had digital signatures for ages. Any digital content can be hashed and that hash can be signed. No new tech needed for this. We just need to start doing this. HN comments, blog articles, emails, instagram photos, whatever. All of that is unsigned currently. - If we can associate content with a public key, the reputation of that key is the body of work signed with that key. A new key has no reputation. - we can associate ownership of keys with people, companies, or particular AI models. - we can build trust on top of this. You might not know a particular journalist but if multiple of your friends seem to appreciate what they have to say, you might pay more attention. - we can filter out anything disreputable easily.