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Re:Ask HN: Will personal websites gain traction as AI conten... by rsolva on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:33PM (#35281601)
> The problem, of course, is what you alluded to -- how can we know what's made by humans and what's made by AI? I think that my already limited use of the web is likely to decline to nearly zero because of that issue.

Do you not think that a web of trust could work as a bulwark against this trend? I imagine long-time bloggers that already have a good reputation can help seed trust by recommend other people they know personally and can vouch for.

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Re:Ask HN: Will personal websites gain traction as AI conten... by JohnFen on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:37PM (#35281644)
Yes, but to a very limited degree. In order to be effective, it has to be a web of people who personally know the people they're vouching for, and I'd be less inclined to take the word of people too many hops out from me. I may trust my direct friends judgements, but I'll have lesser trust in the judgement of friends-of-friends, and so on.

But in any case, what it means is that I'll have a small "personal web" of sites, and that would be the entire webosphere to me. It's a bunker kind of situation, and pretty much the opposite of what the web really should be.

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