Re: Meronymity

Manu has a good point. I have no problem interacting with an AI bot as long as I can be sure it’s an AI bot—and ideally if I can check its vendor, provenance, trained data sets, etc.

Same for a human—I don’t need to know their identity, just their authenticity.

Meronimous (is that a word? 😉) VCs could definitely help do that.

=Drummond

From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Date: Friday, April 26, 2024 at 8:05 AM
To: W3C Credentials CG (Public List) <public-credentials@w3.org>
Cc: Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>, Golda Velez <gvelez17@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Meronymity
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 11:39 AM Golda Velez <gvelez17@gmail.com> wrote:
> um.  not to be a downer, but Quora on the non-technical side is absolutely full of manipulation by bad actors, imho...

Wouldn't the use of VCs provide some level of assurance that the bad
actor isn't faking their credentials? As Adrian mentioned, there can
be reputation associated with those VCs.

> the thing is its important to remember there are quite different incentives and less verifiability once you are in a non-technical domain, especially geopolitical

Are you saying that there are no combination of verifiable credentials
that could be used to separate the bots, from the bad actors, from the
good actors with specific expertise?

Another interesting aspect here is that "the bots" are, probably
within the next decade, going to legitimately exceed the level of
expertise of 99.9% of the population on most subjects that could be
discussed in an online forum. I, for one, welcome our new robot troll
overlords. :P

-- manu

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