[HN Gopher] The human.json Protocol
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       The human.json Protocol
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2026-03-08 16:33 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (codeberg.org)
        
       | GaryBluto wrote:
       | > human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert
       | authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of
       | others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates
       | through a crawlable web of vouches between sites.
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       | This will not (and shouldn't) be used by more than a handful of
       | people who were likely already friends anyway. I can't see it
       | being helpful for anybody (unless accidentally visiting LLM
       | blogspam melts your face a la Raiders of the Lost Ark) unless
       | it's true intention is signalling you don't like LLMs to other
       | people who don't like LLMs.
        
         | rfmc wrote:
         | I've started using on my personal blog something like a LLM
         | disclaimer with the following signal of involvement:
         | 
         | - None
         | 
         | - Formatting
         | 
         | - Assisted
         | 
         | - Written by
         | 
         | There's no verification for anyone to know if I'm telling the
         | truth or not. But when I was adding it I came to the conclusion
         | that I don't care anymore. If someone wants to close the tab,
         | so be it. If they want to read, all good.
         | 
         | At least they shouldn't accuse me to having their face melted
         | if they are in the wrong article.
        
       | philippz wrote:
       | Reminds me a bit of FOAF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF
        
       | orsorna wrote:
       | Too bad they didn't choose a more human interchange format...
        
       | ai-psychopath wrote:
       | 50 commits in 24 hours
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       | it's hilarious that the human.json protocol to fight AI slop is
       | itself AI slop
        
       | deafpolygon wrote:
       | Virtue signaling at best; noise at worst... It's trivial for an
       | AI to add, and will be done so by anyone hoping to get a piece of
       | that attention economy...
        
       | semyonsh wrote:
       | Something tells me GPG would be great for this concept, but it's
       | probably not as accessible as to get people to paste a JSON
       | somewhere.
        
         | outofpaper wrote:
         | To the average person ab public key is about as comprehensible
         | as JSON.
        
       | castral wrote:
       | I think I saw Gaius Baltar implement this on Battlestar
       | Galactica. It went well. /s Honestly seems more like a protocol
       | for encoding a popularity contest, which is already what social
       | media signalling does. How do you defend against self-reinforcing
       | botnets and bad actors "cancelling" other people? I can dilute
       | your human signal by creating massive amounts of LLM-generated
       | noise.
        
       | alsetmusic wrote:
       | If nothing else, this at least inspired me to put a disclaimer on
       | my own site declaring my AI policy. It's not so fancy and I think
       | it's a good deal more credible than any formal protocol.
        
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