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Friday, October 30, 2020

Garbage in - Garbage Forever?

Of course the well known phrase is applicable to many kinds of 'intelligence', analytics, AI and forecasting and inference.   Here we just make sure it goes beyond to methods like blockchain.  Authentication is before, during and after ...  important.

With Blockchain, it’s Garbage In – Garbage Forever  By Avivah Litan   in  Gartner

Many companies across the globe are using or are considering blockchain for tracking assets, proving provenance and eliminating counterfeit products.  But how does anyone know what is being tracked on the blockchain is real to begin with? Just because blockchain data is cryptographically secure doesn’t mean the data is legitimate.

My Gartner colleagues, Scott Smith, Svetlana Sicular, and I delivered a webinar a couple of days ago on Using AI and Blockchain to Detect Fakes in a Zero-Trust World . We discussed the role of blockchain and AI in proving authenticity of any entity, whether it is news, content, photographs, videos, food, pharmaceuticals, shoes, luxury goods, or any ‘thing’ else you can think of. ... '

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