1/8
"artists can no longer appear real on their own" – a perverse notion of centralized platforms becoming gatekeepers for identity/authenticity verification...?
eh, the problem was that anyone thought appearance was reality to being with...
drorpoleg.com/artificial-mon… #AI #LLM
/2
...that's the idea behind @benthompson's 'Zero Trust Authenticity vs castle-and-moat' analogies, e.g.:
Just because a song looks and sounds like Drake doesn't mean it came from Drake – its authenticity must (obviously?) still be verified 👇
medium.com/adventures-in-… #media
/3
...but that's not obvious to everyone:
to whatever extent there's a crisis in the authenticity and verification of (mis/dis)information, it's concentrated among non-internet natives – i.e. Millennials/Zoomers aren't the problem 👇
stratechery.com/2020/zero-trus… #boomers #content
/4
...my point isn't inter-generational spats; it's creators/artists/brands growing more empowered than ever, with their owned-and-operated destinations (e.g. O&O websites and to some extent social followings) becoming ever more important primary sources for verification
#AI
/5
...farbeit from @drorpoleg's "it makes the most charismatic people dependent on corporate platforms in order to exist", it goes differently (doubly) for incumbent creators/artists/brands as opposed to new entrants/upstarts 👇
medium.com/adventures-in-…
/6
...for more on that dichotomy, see:
🅰️ "differentiated [stars who] are destinations unto themselves" and "broad scale or niche focus" and "discovery" problem (medium.com/swlh/the-athle…)
🅱️ "The Four Winds of Modern Media" (medium.com/adventures-in-…)
/7
...TLDR:
Kids these days (😏) know how to and do verify whether that hot new song is Drake himself; licensed by Drake himself; or generative AI unauthorized by Drake himself – so the content commons aren't dependent on platforms as "artificial monopolies" of authentication
🏁/8
...TLDR (cont'd):
but that doesn't mean that platforms cannot and should not facilitate authentication/verification/identification as a service for producers and consumers alike – Trustless Verification can help remove centralized platform risk 👇
...see also:
• weak opinions weakly held regarding LLM libel, safe harbor, and copyright/fair use
• derivative and transformative works
• digital rights management (DRM) and YouTube ContentID
• AI transformer mechanics and the 4 part fair use test
medium.com/adventures-in-…
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