axelsvensson

As the rate and quality of AI-generated content keeps increasing, it seems inevitable that it will become easier to create fake content and harder to verify/refute it.

I keep thinking that "someone" could use cryptographic time-stamping as one line of defense. As a philanthropic effort, it seems relatively easy, cheap and valuable to do so. I imagine a web archive could save a stream of hashes not seen before, occasionally compile a merkle root and publish it in several places where time of publication is common knowledge.

Is this being done, else why not? It seems like an opportunity too good to pass on.