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by gosub100 292 days ago
I'm calling it now: within a year, somehow a trend will appear where writers will perform their duties under voluntary video surveillance showing the human's face, fingers and screen contents (possibly by multiple cameras) to "prove" they did it on their own.

This video will be too voluminous or intrusive to be viewed manually, so it will be analyzed by (you guessed it) AI to determine if the work was authentic.

It will probably be developed and required by the corrupt education industry, but perhaps some writers will voluntarily use it to buy authenticity or stand out. But either way, the machine will once again find another way to take our agency and make our lives less enjoyable.

2 comments

Great way to make it easy to identify your password based on the sound the keys make as you press them. It's already doable IIRC, but it would be much easier if people were uploading tons of video of themselves typing.
Or much simpler, use the integration with TPM/DRM-style chips to monitor HID input (not too fast too) and publish that to a blockchain as PoW (new NFTs?)