Human Reputation: A New Rating System

We are currently working on Curyo. The main idea is to create a new rating system for the age of AI, since we think we need better/new quality signals for the web. We are generally interested in getting more feedback on what a good rating system should be.

FYI: We previously submitted a link to the website to invite people to test it, but it was immediately flagged as "dead". I'm not sure why, but the project is completely open source, and there's no money involved or anything like that. It uses a public ledger, but this is because we thought a trustless ledger would make sense for a new rating system (because of the transparency). We are happy to change this if people prefer a database, because it's more user-friendly.

Assuming widespread adoption, what’s to stop this from turning into a closed “elite club” walled garden? I’ve found that oftentimes, as soon as you attempt to distribute the decision of who’s to be trusted, you’re definitely going to end up filtering for something, but it’ll rarely be what you initially intended to filter for.

It works better in maintainer-led allow/trustlists because the people who need the trust hold all the levers that decide what “trust” means. But when you distribute those levers to everyone, it makes sense that it’d eventually drift into almost a self-defined system.

Great idea. Cannot wait to read the full paper.