# General-purpose compute verification is unsolved; ZK is 40 minutes per image

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-19
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Decentralizing AI: Compute Protocols and Proof of Work - Panel Discussion \| Proof of Data 2024 (Recall Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:37:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=2238s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-03-19-general-purpose-compute-verification-is-unsolved-z-zz3h/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "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), 19 Mar 2024, 00:37:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoePJrzyDQ&t=2238s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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...

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.