Then why publish the obscured benchmarks in the first place then?

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The web though I agree isn't very decentralized.

If they're doing the opposite yet end up a lot cheaper with higher quality and more features, I'm really not sure what's going on. Don't see how they could be cheaper either.

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What sort of software would be impacted by this? Almost anything could be critical depending on the context.

Right, but once you've generated those, then what? You need a global registry of sorts so people can lookup each others keys for example, which is why DNS kind of is the best we have available today.

I don't think there is any perfect solution here, but it's hard to come up with something that has better trade-offs than DNS. Sure, ICANN might be based in the US, but so far DNS been relatively safe to rely on, and if ends up not reliable in the future, I'm not sure social media profiles is the biggest worry at that point.

Also, being able to touch up the model between Step 1 and Step 2 would probably be a neat addition, I could see some minor faults I could quickly clean up if I could download the generated .glb and import a new version, so Step 2 doesn't rely on a model containing mistakes.

Otherwise, this looks pretty damn good, the UX is slightly confusion at first, and the colors all over the place on the website itself, but it does seem to work better than I expected. Kudos for making the life of animators easier :)

Edit: two minor notes, the download URLs doesn't actually trigger a browser download, but instead shows it in the browser, and the uploaded files seems to end up being semi-public, no authentication at all. Might want to tell people to not upload private content just yet, or put uploaded/generated data behind auth. Might want to zip up all the files (so the directories for the image is correct too) and offer a download of that instead.

Edit2: Looking at the generated .atlas, are all the names correct? I'm seeing "animated_Orc Idle_7328aa0f" even in the .atlas files generated from my own characters, using a walking animation. The attachments in the skins also reference "animated_Orc" in the generated .json, maybe it's just some static string that isn't supposed to change?

Well, either that or someone else hosting their identity (see did:plc), which seems to be the part you say should exist?

Probably DNS is the most decentralized centralized system we have available today that most people can actually use, unless I'm missing some obviously better way of doing the same thing?

I don't know what generation you belong to, but I was still in school when mobile phones that could record video became "good enough" that most of my peers in school had them, today I'm ~33. But we were also thinking about that sort of stuff, especially when we were doing stuff you kind of don't want to be public, and there was a few cases of embarrassing things "leaking" which obviously suck.

But I'm not sure how different it is today? Maybe it's more acceptable to film people straight in their faces, and less accepted to slap the phone out of people's hand if they're obnoxious about it? In the end, it doesn't feel like a "new" problem anymore, as it seems like this all started more than 15 years ago and we had fears about being filmed already then.

And even though some comments I've made been downvoted, they've stilled spawned interesting conversations, so I count that as a win regardless.