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Crypto is, at its core, about making impermanent digital things behave like permanent physical ones.
Their wordsSo we have to add something to the content to mark it somehow, creating a sort of uniqueness or permanence. At its core, that’s what crypto is about: Making impermanent digital things behave like permanent physical things.
Their wordsWe could just trust everyone to tell the truth, and mark their AI-generated content as coming from a machine. I’m only mentioning this to point out how ridiculous the notion is; clearly, people would forget to do so, and bad actors would lie. Some platforms are trying to mark bot accounts as different from human ones, but this isn’t going to solve our problem.
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