What's the solution apart from an identity providing service?

I don't know of a solution. I don't think even identity verification will meaningfully solve this. People will get hacked, or provide their SEO-spamming agent with their own identity, or purposefully post fake videos under their own identity. As it becomes more normal to scan your ID to access random websites, it will also become easier to steal people's identities and the value of identity verification will go down.

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intrasight 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People don't get hacked - devices get hacked. So all we need is a better chain of trust between two people. This is not a technology development problem as much as a technology implementation problem. And a political problem

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bigfishrunning 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People get hacked -- a device could be flawless, but if a person is a victim of "Social Engineering" and hands the attacker a password, there's nothing the designer of the device could do about it.

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soco 3 hours ago | parent [-]

2FA has tried to solve exactly this. Not many attacked people will hand over their password AND their phone. Yes I know, they might hand over one authentication code (and I know people who did exactly that)... We should also look into reducing the attack surface - if you get Instagram hacked you shouldn't get your Facebook hacked as well. But the current big tech centralization leads us to that single point of failure, because they don't care about the user's concerns only market grab. So... what now? Do we get the politics into this?

	▲	bigfishrunning 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		One authentication code is often all that's needed to change where the authentication codes are sent Not to mention that most 2FA still uses SMS, which has it's own well-understood security flaws.

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prox 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Best thing I think of is domain names. Domains are tied to addresses and billing, and sites are people or businesses, with physical locations one can visit.

Maybe a good startup idea would be “local verify” , where you check locally for a client if the online destination is real.

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nathanaldensr 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed. The sphere of trust around each of us will shrink back to only those in our physical proximity. Outside of that, no one can be trusted.

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jjulius an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Touching grass. Valuing in-person connections. Focusing on the community, meatspaces and actual people around you.

Getting off of the Internet and off of our devices. It's not just a solution to AI/LLMs modifying our reality but also a solution to [gestures wildly at the cultural, societal and global communication impacts of the past ~16 years].

This sentiment is unpopular, but it's true. Prioritize true connections and experiences.

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Gigachad 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m seeing a huge increase in companies requiring in person interviews now. Seems there is a real possibility the internet as we know it will be destroyed.

	▲	dominotw 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		linkedin is completely destroyed now. There are tons of ai bots there but real humans are now fronts for AI. So you cant even trust content from from ppl you know. identity serivce is not useful because that person might be a real person but they might just be a pipe to ai like we see on linkedin.
	▲	rkomorn 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think you might be right and I think I'll like some of the consequences and hate some of the others. More in-person stuff feels like a win to me (and I say this as someone who probably counts as introverted). Not being able to trust any online interactions anymore? Seems like a new height in what was already a negative.

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adithyassekhar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's just shifting the problem not solving it.