> Any application built on top of that protocol is guaranteed to be used by only real human beings.
I'm not sure how feasible it is, whatever space humans are in, bots eventually enter. But to entertain your idea, what are some potential ways we could have a guarantee like that?
Initial verification requires you to physically travel to the nearest verification center, and present yourself in person.
In-person visits are of limited value when shady middlemen can give poor folks a fake ID and pay them a pittance to register as "you."
Sam Altman is trying to build this with the world app and retina scanning. Who knows if it will go anywhere.
Humans have shown them selves to be more than willing to post generated content on behalf of a bot. And worse, bot farms often employ a bunch of humans to mass post bot created content.
* scans eye *
* pushes button on keyboard-button-pressing machine *
The analog hole works just as well in reverse.
> build this with the world app and retina scanning
So how would the interface/UX work with that, for each outgoing request you'd need to scan your retina, so you'd have something like a Yubikey at home, but with a little retina-camera instead?