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HumanStamp
Make effort visible in the age of AI
17 followers
Make effort visible in the age of AI
17 followers
Effort used to be a signal. A thoughtful cold email or thank-you note showed that someone had invested real time. Today, AI can write polished emails in seconds, making genuine effort impossible to see. HumanStamp makes effort visible again. It's a Chrome extension that verifies how an email was written—without the content ever leaving your device. If you personally type over 50% of a message, you can add a HumanStamp badge. Recipients with the extension can hover over the badge to verify it.
Love that everything stays local, feels like the badge actually means something instead of just trusting a sender's word. Curious to see how it holds up with heavy editing and pasted text.
@metinbykl1qe8 Thank you Metin! Feel free to try it out – it takes 30 seconds to add to Chrome and test :) You can see that it holds up with lots of editing and pasted text (and if it doesn't, let me know!)
the biggest concern for me: it verifies typing effort, not original thought. nothing stops someone from having ai draft the email, reading it, then manually retyping the whole thing themselves. that clears 50% typed easily and gets the badge, but the "effort" it's supposed to signal never actually happened. feels like it measures keystrokes when what people actually care about is whether the ideas are yours
@galdayan Gal, thank you for your comment – you raise a great point! I'm sure many people would generate emails using AI and retype it to get the stamp.
However, in the process of retyping, they're at least bound to be thinking about the words they're typing, and meaningfully engaging with the message they're sending. There's a place for detecting AI-generated content, but in the case of emails and communication, I actually think AI is a great tool to use. The point of HumanStamp is for people to show when they've put effort and engaged with the message they're sending.
Do you think that people would value this signal of human-engaged vs human-generated communication?
@sumedhakethini honestly yes, i think there's real value in it, just a narrower kind than "not AI." retyping forces a slower pass over the words, so it filters out zero effort spam even if it can't prove the ideas are original. i'd frame it less as human vs AI and more as "did a person actually read this before hitting send" - that's a signal worth paying for on its own even if it's not airtight