Ask HN: Where are human/resident/citizen-only online convos available?

3 points by pc2g4d 2 years ago | 1 comment

With LLMs and foreign troll farms and bot nets, it seems it would be valuable for Americans, or any country's citizens, to have conversations that more or less can be relied on to be carried out by their fellow citizens. For global contexts, the ability to have conversations with very-likely-to-be-human-beings also seems increasingly desirable.

Is this being worked on? Seems like a business opportunity to provide independent proof-of-human in digital form.

Centralized and distributed approaches all appeal. Whatever happened to the Web of Trust?

sim7c00 2 years ago |

more and more i feel this is not going to be possible at some point. wanted to say 'go to a bar' , not jokingly. sad to say it too because i hate outside. if someone can come up with an actual solution cool. maybe if digital identities are further its possible but that would them likely be govt controlle / censored etc. and likely also not quite what youd want. saw some attempts at people making digital identitt based on blockchain, but if its not actually verifiable to a real person (which that is not) ur still in the same boat.

think about it. biometrics might be needed, and whos gonna have that database?? voice, text etc. is not enough. the next would be iris scans fingerprints etc. i suppose.

how does one identify themselves? how can you prove to me, you are you? biometrics only really, but i cant verify those.. only people you trust with that data can. and who would that be? are they trustworthy to me?

so id say. go to a bar. sorry.