How will we know that we are reading something authentic written by the original author vs something that has been altered and rewritten? This may have been a problem in the pre-AI world as well, but with the ease one can generate text now I wonder if there is a much greater risk.
Friend, PGP signed messages were around in the 90s. Key signing parties. Web of trust.
Would be fun to see the “web of trust” develop into 2 non-connected subnets. Choose your own truth to live in.
Blockchain = keysigning + timestamping
Which version is earliest is relevant in this use-case.
Ohhh I get you then. Instead of checking against an author’s key, and building a distributed web of trust between trusted authors, you build a system that requires everyone collaborate on one shared chain of signatures.
Sure—the point I was trying to make is that it still needs to be done piecemeal, while a blockchain can verify a collection of works as a collection (that is, it not only verifies that each work is unaltered, it verifies it in the context of other related works).