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 The next generation will be so flooded with AI-generated fake content that they won't believe that there was a time where we consumed internet content that wasn't cryptographically signed. 
 Cannot internet content be cryptographically signed by AI agents? I genuinely ask :) 
 I would assume technically yes but the problem with spam / low effort AI posts is that it doesnt cost any energy to do so.

introduce a 1sat barrier = spam done (very roughly speaking) 
 I'd like to think so, I hope maths hasn't become illegal at that point  
 progress is impossible to stop... you can fight it, get lost in the past or embrace it, take advantage of it and move forward... My dad told his memories of waiting for color TV in the '70s. I tell my daughter that to write messages, letters were sent letter by letter, without image, without audio, or video. Perhaps, with good intentions, the IAs collaborate to find solutions to health problems, economic crises, even regional discord. 
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 could not agree more! was trying to explain it to my dad last night. 
 Cryptographic signatures will be so sleek they won’t even know it’s being done. 

They’ll be more impressed how much we trusted content. 
 Signed by who/what, though. There's the rub.

Look at software distribution, today, on the OSs that most people use for the likely outcome. 
 Yea, I don’t think I buy that we’ll be able to get our act together enough to start cryptographically signing things for reasonable authenticity. My hot take is this actually drives people back to mainstream media as arbiters of truth. 
 Maybe by the people in the content themselves 
 Signed by the President of the United States for example! 
 #AI shall force #nostr on anyone who wants to make sure fake content isn't attribted to them - that obvioy includes all the popular leaders  like Saylor and Jack .

It gets funny when Elon will have to ditch X  ( and use Nostr) to prove his authenticity :-)  


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