An attestation-like system to detect humanity at time of post is absolutely for useful online spaces in the era of AI slop.

The writing style of the author is very annoying.

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MiddleEndian 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And people should be free to pick and choose whether they want to use sites that do that or not. Whatever hacker news does seems to be fine for me, and I did not need to verify my ID in any way (even though it's very easy to figure out who I am from this profile)

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HWR_14 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Until people hit "attest" and then copy the text from ChatGPT.

	▲	selectively 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those people would be subjected to permanent, identity-bound bans.

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goda90 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It could be done with anonymous credentials though. No tracing to who the human is.

	▲	selectively 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anonymous in terms of it not being possible to derive the real world identity of the human from the value, sure. Anonymous in terms of providing no durable way to ban that human from the platform? No.