What’s been happening? I’m intrigued!
Discussion
Let's see - notes attributed to npubs that seem plagiarized. Events that are being dicussed and engaged by personas that would normally ignore or deride them. A feeling that sequences of events are somehow out of sequence. Similar to deja vu, but also skipping forward. Something much worse than ReplyGuy spam, where every npub has multiple spam copies that post what for now is clearly spam, but could easily be tuned to post deep fakes.
How easy is it to replicate an npub, and have an LLM trained on relay content be able to post notes in the "voice" of that npub? This is what WoT may be designed to counter, but I think it will also be countered.
I bet the answer to that is “pretty easy” now but it’ll be exponentially easier within a couple years at the most.
I can’t imagine how a person will be able to verify a random npub at that point. Machines just learn quicker than people.
One thing is certain to me - I will always enjoy making my own artwork, even if a robot can make a good fake of it. I’m the one who enjoys doing it.