Hang in there. It does take longer than you think and it's a marathon with a lot of peaks and valleys.
You do need a market, not just a product. You also need to network to get input, partners, and build a BD pipeline. You don't necessarily need revenue at first, you need to prove external interest, whether that's a beta, pilot, or collaboration/partnership. All these things will add to your momentum.
I think once I see someone post a use case that I could actually see saving me some serious time, I'll take the plunge. Until then, I'll just let people continue to say how great (or terrible) it is.
Project name: BlkBolt
Project description: Experimental ML-based data encoding system. No keys, no traditional crypto primitives, just learned unique representations. Early stage and looking for collaboration.
This month: Design and market research on "know your agent" products
Skills: ML, crypto, security folks for independent validation stress testing and just general support. Would love someone to try and forge or break our signatures.
True, this demo does not verify the agent or it's owner, but that's not necessarily what it was intended for (hence the "our take" part). We would view this as an additional trust layer (although a big one we'd argue) in a "know your agent" product. It was mostly intended to show how you can prove an agent of yours created the content seen on a users screen, verify it's integrity, and have this all work in a streaming system.
Thanks, we think so too, we're not aware of anything doing this currently but please share if you know of anything.
By false positives, I'm assuming you mean, two separate LLMs/agents output and sign the exact same content (e.g. hello world!).
These are not traditional signatures and can have metadata encoded into them (the demo only encodes lease ID, create timestamp). So you could rely on the metadata during verification for provenance (which one came first). The demo has a separate link to additional information about the signatures.
P.S. this is just a demo to demonstrate this in a real-time streaming scenario (mostly for a prospect). But we'd love to hear if anyone thinks this could be useful as a product of its own.
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