A lightweight protocol called human.json enables website owners to assert authorship of their content and vouch for the humanity of other site operators through a web of trust, using browser extensions to visualize connections based on proximity in the trust network. The system leverages URL ownership as identity, allows transitive vouching between sites with varying trust depths indicated by color coding, and provides a crawlable graph to help users distinguish human-maintained content from AI-generated material.
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A lightweight protocol called human.json enables website owners to assert authorship of their content and vouch for the humanity of other site operators through a web of trust, using browser extensions to visualize connections based on proximity in the trust network. The system leverages URL ownership as identity, allows transitive vouching between sites with varying trust depths indicated by color coding, and provides a crawlable graph to help users distinguish human-maintained content from AI-generated material.