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> Imagine those systems required no government bureaucracy, couldn’t be revoked, proved you were a human, etc. Wouldn’t that be a benefit? That describes CAPTC
by Ukv 3y ago
> Imagine those systems required no government bureaucracy, couldn’t be revoked, proved you were a human, etc. Wouldn’t that be a benefit?
That describes CAPTCHAs. While there are practical implementation issues, the goal of proving you're human is reasonable.
ID systems however go further and, for instance, prevent you from protecting your privacy by making throwaway accounts. I prefer the balance we currently have, where such verification is plausible for important things (buying a house) but not so convenient that it'd be used by every website.
- teucris 3y agoThere exist ID systems that prevent you from protecting your privacy, but that doesn’t mean it’s a core feature.
- Ukv 3y agoWorld ID explicitly set out to solve PoP, which includes uniqueness of individuals within a system, such that "creating 1,000 bot accounts would require finding 1,000 human users willing to consistently verify their authenticity"[0]. They consider CAPTCHAs to fail "because any human can pass multiple of them". They advertise it as a method for "Control Over Max Number of Accounts per Person"[1] (in addition to "Protection Against Unlawful Account Sharing"). So at the very least it seems like a core feature of World ID. For some other system, if it allows verifying users' humanness but not uniqueness or identity then I don't think I'd class it as an ID system. Maybe I'm failing to imagine all possibilities. [0]: https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-of-ai https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-... [1]: https://worldcoin.org/world-id?for=apps https://worldcoin.org/world-id?for=apps