First of all, dick pics surely have to be the worst idea to the point it shouldn't even be a thing. Imagine being someone who receives a poorly shot pic of my hog and me being stupid enough to release it permanently to the internet! Srsly dumbasses ;)
I am so torn on this internet/identity theft stuff and AI certainly isn't making me feel better about it. I would have loved to hold accounts on exchanges (for Hive mostly) to trade and invest but simply sending a copy of my picture and all the things that are needed for someone to steal my identity seems so dumb. Especially since we have no idea who we are sending it to.
When I think of a central trusted authority to guard our identity and make it safer to use it to sign up for services, all I can think of is Centralized. Pumping more of my info into a corporation with a board of directors and shareholders to appease with profits at any cost...including my own. Or worse!
I am a little concerned with content on the internet that is all AI generated in order to short cut the time and value of persona, imperfect content. Whenever I see AI (even though I am a big user of it for business content creation to a certain extent) It feels greasy and distracts from the intent of the message. Like margarine. As things progress and the AI gets more sophisticated and able to impersonate the people and social engagement even more, it is going to be so tough to decipher.
I don't have many answers and generally let the smarter people come up with the coding like you. Decentralized should be the key to those who believe in the ethos of Hive (like @theycallmedan and his recent vlog https://hive.blog/hive-181335/@theycallmedan/fkqpmozk) but there are so many other factors and challenges with that.
Thinking and discussing and wondering is how our generation exercised our brains and came up with solutions. Love the discussion that will come of this post and curious to see what others think.
"Proof of P33N" doesn't sound like a compelling protocol.
Every scrotum print is unique! ;)