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cheqd Challenge: Verifiable AI

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Tracks: Reusable Identity

Register: DevPost

Informational Session: Watch the recording

DIF Hackathon Discord Channel: #cheqd

Website: Cheqd

Overview​

In a world where generative AI is increasingly a part of our lives, ensuring the authenticity and trustworthiness of data is crucial. Our challenge for you is to use cheqd’s decentralized identity stack to build Verifiable AI concept solutions that tackle emerging societal and technical challenges.

Challenge​

“Harnessing Decentralized Identity for Verifiable AI”

The theme of this challenge is to harness decentralized identity for Verifiable AI. Some possible examples are below.

Potential Examples

Our blog post on the potential of decentralized identity in Verifiable AI offers ideas on sample use cases and applications where we think decentralised identity can restore trust in the age of AI:

  • Content credentials (“How much of this content was AI or human generated?”): Content Credentials are an emerging standard using Verifiable Credentials that can capture a “chain-of-custody” of how much of an image (or video/audio) was human-generated or AI-generated, which can help people understand whether to trust a particular content or not.
  • Proof of Personhood: Use Verifiable Credentials to capture whether a person is real, to varying levels of “personhood”: a “basic” level could be a credential that states someone is a human (like CAPTCHA), a more “advanced” level would be “it’s this specific person with legal identity”.
  • Proof of “Authorised AI Agent”: Just like “Know Your Customer” (KYC), we believe people will authorise generative AI agents to not just come up with text, but plan actions on their behalf. For example, describing to an AI agent your holiday budget and preferences, and it makes bookings on your behalf. A “Proof of AI Agent” will help sites understand if this is a “good” AI bot that’s been authorised by a human, vs a “bad” AI bot.

Prizes​

Total: $7,500 worth of CHEQ tokens

  • 1st place: $5,000 worth of CHEQ tokens
  • 2nd place: $2,500 worth of CHEQ tokens

Submission requirements​

  • Must use the cheqd Network through cheqd DID method (did:cheqd) and/or cheqd DID-Linked Resources.
  • Reference or use of the CHEQ token is a nice-to-have (points for referencing how you would incorporate it in a scaled-up version).
  • Ensure submission includes a project description, video, and a README file in the repository.
  • Must have a clear opportunity for to create a sustainable commercial model, but it does not need this to be built in.
  • Include a 3-minute video describing the application and its functionality.
  • Provide a URL to a public code repository in GitHub.
  • Must use W3C-compliant verifiable credentials.
  • Provide a text description of:
    • Project's features and functionality.
    • How DIDs, VCs, and other submission requirements were used in the application.