With the overwhelming amount of AI slop that has been included in issues, PRs, and other Raven Dev Team repos, I decided to put the spec's markdown in an AI checker. The results say 100% of it was AI generated and that makes sense with all the issues and inconsistencies the spec contains. I've shared a link below to the AI checker that I've used.

https://app.gptzero.me/documents/08974092-6a67-4555-a133-9883eee2e9aa/share

Personally, I'd like to think that this is a just a kid with good intentions striving to make a better internet, but LLMs are not the way to go about it. LLMs are just summarizing tools. They are not good at creating new ideas. They just summarize knowledge it already has already been trained by.

But then, things got real when he received a $50k donation to get this going, and now, he's just trying to handle it the best he can. Realistically, $50k is nowhere near enough manpower to bootstrap a new Internet layer, but, even so, there is entire community being built around Betanet. I've met some cool people and I'm sure you have too, but will this project turn into something real? Probably not.

The only really decent, concrete idea that has come from this is using a mock TLS connection to mask other protocols. Why not put that over Tor or I2p? I don't know. Everything else, the protocol upgradability, the financial incentives for routing, are not new. Many blockchains have an upgrade protocol more sophisticated than just release the update and hope people start running the new version. Financial incentives have been available for years using Althea (althea.net).