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We almost need a proof of human check. Before submitting a PR, you must find and paste the actual lyrics of a random song as challenge-response.

Lyrics seem to have the strongest safeguards out of everything. (Try it! On some APIs, you might see moderation/refusal behavior you don't see with anything else, even cyber)



Basically, any copyrighted material should do. This only covers not ablated LLMs though. Ultimately, a web of trust where someone whose humanity and integrity you trust AT THE COST OF YOUR OWN INTEGRITY vouches for an individual is likely going to be the most reliable way. New open source contributors will require proof of humanity.

On top of this, you would want an expirable proof of humanity to reduce account takeover as a security vector and publicly sharing failed proof attempts would quickly deter actors from targeting projects en masse.


>Basically, any copyrighted material should do.

Anything illegal, for that matter. Crime as proof of humanity. Fun future!


On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, I don't want to be constantly worried about my own reputation.


> I don't want to be constantly worried about my own reputation.

That is why you must think carefully who you vouch for. Like in a house party. If you bring someone who does not act well, it reflects bad on you.

Ultimately, a shrinking contributor pool is the inevitable consequence of code generation being virtually free.


But then I end up not vouching for anyone.


And that's fine. Not everyone has someone to vouch for.


What is the advantage of vouching - or can it only harm you?

How many people do you envision the average person vouching for? If it's less than 3, that's a problem.


The reason you vouch for someone is that you get the benefit of their contributions to the project and, assuming the person you are recommending is good, you get an improved reputation in the eyes of the person you vouchsafed them to.


Vouching for people is not a new concept, right? We do it all the time.


It usually ends with you getting banned or shadowbanned from vouching.


Hope the Programa Nostra will open the books for me in the future.


Song lyrics have the strongest legal precedent is why, there was a recent court case requiring them to be taken out of the training data of an AI model


Proof of humanity must be dead dropped at a McDonalds within 25 miles of a legit contributor to verify.


PR human captcha for every commit pushed to a PR ?


You can also ask it to say racial slurs.


You're just going to force contributors to use Grok.




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