> There's no real defense against AI impersonation at scale, except for charging-for-verification.
There is: have the state take care of that as you are a citizen that pay taxes (you already are paying for this "verification") – an ID card that contains a proof of you being... you.
But the U.S. has a phobia of any form of national ID card, so I doubt that the USDS will be able to build anything soon. It's such a shame. At least having it as an option could allow society's to start experimenting with it as a solution to these problems.
I'd like a govt service where you can verify that you're a real person but not your identity or anything of the sort. Sort of like having the third party registering with the government and then you get a token per account you make so the service can verify there isn't more than one accounts per person but they can't identify you across the services. Would also be immensely helpful useful for stopping cheating in online video games, while not requiring you to give our your real name and identity to anything
There is: have the state take care of that as you are a citizen that pay taxes (you already are paying for this "verification") – an ID card that contains a proof of you being... you.
https://openid.ee/en/