> Should you have to present a birth certificate to create an account? I actually honestly believe that the era of "open registration" forums and discussion pl

> Should you have to present a birth certificate to create an account? I actually honestly believe that the era of "open registration" forums and discussion places is going to come to a close, largely due to GNN. It's not going to become a problem until the hardware and walltime costs of training models and running them comes down. You'll know it's a problem when every 10th post on 4chan is a model pretending to be a human that is of a gentle but unyielding political persuasion of some sort. I don't know what the end pattern will be, but it'll likely be a combination of things - large platforms, like reddit or facebook, where individual communities "vibe check" posts out. or - some sort of barrier to entry, such as a small amount of money (the so called "idiot tax": if you're an idiot, you get banned, and you have to pay again) - some sort of (manual!) positive reputation system for discussion boards, sort of like how peering works - some sort of federation technology where you apply and subscribe to federation networks I don't think we'll really be able to predict what the future looks like right now (it's not even widely recognized as a problem). And since this is HN, I'll add: I don't think there's any serious money to be made running reputation or IDV, unless you've already started. And if it becomes a serious enough problem, players like ID.me/equifax/bureau will be the situation for "serious" networks (linkedin, facebook, chat, etc).