Rewarding disclosure: is this the inevitable path for tracking AI use?

Earlier today, I told myself I was going to ensure I wrote something and published more consistently—as it's been a while I did so.

So a few minutes ago, I had to sit in silence thinking about what to write about.

I resulted to running a quick search through ChatGPT on what's been happening recently with AI, didn't get much out of that so I paid Google search a visit, like a poor soul returning to an X, but even that didn't bring anything useful, how surprising right?

Anyone reading this would think I've been away from everything given that I have to look up things, but quite the contrary, is the case here.

There's so much happening lately that before you're able to digest one thing on the feed, something else is there to sweep up that shrinking attention of yours.

Everything is competing for that 15 secs you've got. No wonder brands have to deploy multiple ads running 24/7 right?

The growth pace we expected

It would be a lie to say that we didn't expect AI to grow this fast. The reason "fear" around this tech has sold pretty well is because almost everyone that's had contact in some form, knows just how fast things will move with AI.

Surely, one can also make the claim that the perceived pace might in a lot of cases be lower than the actual rate at which things are changing.

All in all, artificial intelligence is moving fast. The topic I settled to write about jumped at me the second I recalled seeing a post on X about Gemini hitting 1 billion monthly users and Anthropic launching some sort of watermarking for text generated by Claude.

Well, mostly the latter.

Fix the incentives, control the outcomes

There's a lot of attempts out there to control AI.

Most of it just seems like actions that will fail to result in a more controlled AI-powered ecosystem.

Why would anyone want anyone to be able to tell that some text they used was generated by AI?

I certainly wouldn't want to tell you, reading this right now, that everything you've been reading so far was generated by some Chinese model.

Well, unless you paid me for it.

Wild?

Maybe

Maybe blame this conclusion on the possibility that my brain is fried by history of being spoiled with incentives due to involvement with the cryptocurrency industry.

But the way I see it, most things come down to incentives and only when well executed, will they work.

You cannot release a technology and get people to start embracing it only to begin attacking them for adopting it.

If you're going to try to control how they use it, you're going to have to reward disclosures.

It has to be rewarding for the use of AI across anything to be disclosed and known loss (strongly perceived penalty at the same time) when not disclosed.

I think it's the only path we can really expect the masses to embrace, everything else is an attack that will just get people designing walk arounds.

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