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Feb 18Liked by Conspirador Norteño

Would be interested in your view on web3 verification technologies, which I understand provide a way that videos could be authenticated to a blockchain so that the creator's identity could be robustly established? Is that the next step in the arms race?

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I don't know enough about those technologies to say anything definitive, but my hunch is that we'd simply end up seeing bad actors develop their own video generation systems that don't incorporate those verification technologies.

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Feb 19Liked by Conspirador Norteño

Fair enough. But if the issue is establishing how much credibility to attach to any particular video (e.g. is it real or is it AI generated?), having some authenticated means to identify the creator & verify the content hadn't been changed would seem very useful. Sort of like digitally signed code. The credibility of any video without such verification could then be questioned.

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Feb 17Liked by Conspirador Norteño

Remember that baseball commercial where everyone started melting into red bloody goo? Funny how media touts this as the next big thing, ignoring the anomalies that exist with this technology making it not such a big thing after all.

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