Verified Human-made

There is some consternation about Europe not being able to keep up with the US and AI. In the tech press The Continent is often portrayed as quaint but ultimately slow if not failed in this regard, completely unable to get past it’s regulatory programmes and concern for humans and all that. Italy even banned ChatGPT for a bit. Some may think this is so terribly backwards and counter the bright future that somehow awaits us all, albeit very unevenly. But imagine AI was like food.

Many Americans travelling in the EU remark how there is no GMO food and that food almost always tastes better. The correlation is implicit and may or may not always be true, but that isn’t the point. If you knew things coming from Europe on the Internet were more likely to have been produced by a human would you be more likely to trust it? Is saying your service doesn’t use AI like saying the food you sell has no GMOs?

The point is the trust in what you’re consuming, whether food or knowledge, and our inherent concern tempered with cost and speed, which many times win out. Maybe there will be, if there isn’t already, corners of the Internet, AI free and publically proud of that, akin to organic producers. Maybe there will be humans self-labelling what many might consider a more trustable and ostensibly better Internet tomato.