Verifying human authorship with human.json

15 points by abnercoimbre

spc476

A machine readable format for human authorship. Does that mean we'll get a human readable format for AI authorship?

bbbhltz

I have this set up on my blog, and I happen to know the author of this blog is human!

I do have one concern. Similar to the concern with the Not by AI badge awhile back (https://notbyai.fyi/): this could help scrapers identify non-AI content.

ploum

Maybe we should just ignore them and bulid the Web we want?

https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

BinaryIgor

Interesting, but I wonder what stops you - anybody using the protocol - from buying fake domains and have then machines vouched for you :)

abnercoimbre
Haha I assume it's about two things:
1. Introduce friction. Motivated actors will game it, but we remove the worst offenders who correlate with being the laziest
2. Combining human.json with other signals of human authorship, like an IndieWeb slashpage
jbert

It's a web of trust, if you click through to the protocol description you see how the firefox extension displays and allows you to manage trust levels:

https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json

gerikson

What if part of my site has (ultimately) machine-generated content meant for naughty site-scraping robots?