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Fake companies, fake websites, fake products… AI slop is poisoning our sense of reality. It's getting exponentially worse. The Good Potato Project will be a not-for-profit entity dedicated to verifying real things and certifying those online with an audit trail and verification process.
No, but the web and social media are being flooded with bots that pretend to be real, but aren't. How can we know what is real? What if people verified what we see online? How do we scale? One person at a time.
You get a bunch of sponsored links or AI nonsense. When we create an index curated by humans, we fix search. Think Yahoo in the 1990s. We can also run on "potato mode" and not kill the planet.
We're prioritizing verifying artists of all kinds, their labels and publishers, and makers and creators. Fake AI clones are already hurting creatives, and we want to put an end to it.
A CATEGORICAL INDEX OF LINKS CURATED BY HUMANS, VALIDATING REALITY
We're putting together a team of people who will build an index of the web and validate that every link we put into the index is, in fact, a real person, place, thing, service, or product. A Yellow Pages for the 21st Century. The Whole Earth Catalog reborn. Yahoo from 1998. The twist, for 2026 and beyond, is that each link has been verified by humans and has extensive metadata to help people find what they are looking for.
In this way, we can not only verify "yes this thing exists and is made by people," but enhance trust, rebuild what was good about the web, and provide a backstop to the oncoming storm of unreality spawned by the rampant use of AI tools to flood the zone with a fake reality. One that sadly many have already fallen victim to believing.
The Good Potato project will operate as a non-profit entity, and contract humans to do this work (yes, we even have a validation system for onboarding contractors that establishes a web of trust within the org). Many will be information scientists, librarians, journalists, and those who are trained in parsing information systems and properly categorizing the information they find. Some may be subject matter experts. And of course, we'll need some DevOps and full stack developers.
To learn how you can help, check out our Patreon (free news), or our YouTube channel. Or send our founder, Victor Agreda, an email using the form below.