Alice sends Bob an email containing text T, and Bob tells Charlie “Alice said T″!” and sends a screenshot of the email. Charlie, convinced, sanctions Alice for saying T.
Alice tells Bob a statement T in a pub, and Bob tells Charlie “Alice said T″!”. However, Alice hears that Bob told Charlie this, and denies she ever said T. Charlie believes Alice, or at least is left with enough uncertainty not to sanction Alice for saying T.
I guess I don’t understand why Alice can’t deny having sent Bob T in an email in situation 1. Bob could have made up the text just as much as he could have made up the statement in 2, especially now, in the age of LLMs. Maybe Alice also sent a signature cryptographically verifying they sent T, however simply not sending that signature seems easier than abandoning email as a medium for this type of communication.
Edit: There are also other solutions here, like automatically deleting messages before webscrapers can touch them, or using the anonymity still by default provided by the internet.
Hm. So the two situations are:
Alice sends Bob an email containing text T, and Bob tells Charlie “Alice said T″!” and sends a screenshot of the email. Charlie, convinced, sanctions Alice for saying T.
Alice tells Bob a statement T in a pub, and Bob tells Charlie “Alice said T″!”. However, Alice hears that Bob told Charlie this, and denies she ever said T. Charlie believes Alice, or at least is left with enough uncertainty not to sanction Alice for saying T.
I guess I don’t understand why Alice can’t deny having sent Bob T in an email in situation 1. Bob could have made up the text just as much as he could have made up the statement in 2, especially now, in the age of LLMs. Maybe Alice also sent a signature cryptographically verifying they sent T, however simply not sending that signature seems easier than abandoning email as a medium for this type of communication.
Edit: There are also other solutions here, like automatically deleting messages before webscrapers can touch them, or using the anonymity still by default provided by the internet.