General-purpose compute verification is unsolved; ZK is 40 minutes per image
Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion | Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network)
“If you look at ZK… last I checked, for something like a Stable Diffusion verification, a ZK proof will take 40 minutes to verify that the result came back exact. So if you’re waiting 40 minutes before you can get your image generated…” — 00:37:18
Context: He states flatly “verification for general purpose compute is not possible yet” (00:35:51) — the only path is higher-order benchmarking of results plus reputation.