Nobody on the internet knows if you are a human (opens in new tab)

Cartoon by Peter Steiner, The New Yorker, July 5, 1993. Technology is progressing to the point where it is getting increasingly harder to tell if someone is a bot or a human. LessWrong ironically uses LLM tools to tell LLMs apart from humans. On the internet nobody knows if you are a dog, or a LLM-inspired human. This is nothing new: David Chaum published "Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete" in 1985 to argue that we should build identity systems ...