Daniel's Blog · Nobody on the internet knows if you are a human (opens in new tab)

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 without actually learning who someone is — to which the ...