[Analemma_]

Because they have to be able to sell you the cure to the disease they created: pretty soon nearly all content online will be AI-generated, and the only way you'll be able to tell if you're talking to a human is with cryptographically-sealed boot chains, verified with remote attestation, and with this eyeball device at the end to make sure there's a human there.

[RandomBacon]

In the future:

Easy Remote Job Opportunity! Pay is $1/hr. Perfect for retirees, disabled, and even kids! Requirements: have an eye ball. Duties: whatever you want, except when this device beeps, look into the camera.

Is Amazon's Mechanical Turk or whatever paying people to solve captchas still a thing?

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

I didn't even think of this workaround. Genius in its simplicity.

[__MatrixMan__]

It's about time my dog got a job.

[creata]

> the only way you'll be able to tell if you're talking to a human is with...

Or the tried-and-true method of trusting only friends, friends of friends, recommendations from friends, etc.

[__MatrixMan__]

Yes but the point is not to ensure that you know that you're interacting with a human. The point is for whoever paid for the ad to know that a real human is seeing it (and not, for instance, and AI in a docker container).

[creata]

That's a good point, thanks. I interpreted "sell you the cure to the disease they created" as selling it to the public, but I'm sure advertisers would love to make Fifteen Million Merits a reality.