For me the solution is in signed e-mails and signed documents. If the person invites me to a online meeting with a signed e-mail, I trust that person that it's really them.
Same for footage of wars, etc. The journalist taking it basically signs the videos and verifies it's authenticity. It is AI generated, then we would loose trust in that person and wouldn't use their material anymore.
In the interview scenario, generating an email signature is hardly beyond what an AI can do.
You have no prior knowledge of this person or his signature, it's not some government issued ID, it's in essence just random data unless you know the person to be real.
Ultimately ID requires either a government ID service, a third party corporate ID service, or some kind of open hybrid - which doesn't exist.
All of those have their issues.
These are valid approaches to the problem, but they are not necessary.
> or some kind of open hybrid - which doesn't exist.
PGP exists for decades. It doesn't have a great UX, it isn't used outside of its narrow niches, but it exists and does exactly this.
You are assuming that only you can generate fake AI videos of yourself.
With cash, you can only steal so much (or have transactions of up to certain size) until you run into geographical and physical constraints. With cryptocurrency, it’s possible to lose any amount.
With humans writing scam emails, you can only have so many of them until one blows the whistle. With LLMs, a single person can distribute an arbitrary amount.
At some point, quantity becomes a new quality, and drawing a parallel becomes disingenuous because the new quality has no precedent in human history.
And by that you mean tens of millions to billions right? Bank transfer scamming/fraud is a thing.
