> A Proposal for a Fully Attested Digital Future In this page, we envision a world where universal self-sovereign identity (SSI) is the cornerstone of personal liberty and freedom. Within the next 50 years, we propose that all major societal interactions—voting, payments, travel, legal agreements, and more—will be seamlessly underpinned by robust digital identity. This identity will be used like a passport, a payment card, a social media verifier, and a key to all digital and physical interactions. Every device, from your camera to your news feed, will automatically sign and verify content, ensuring that only human-attested material is treated as "true."
# Why This Solves the Slop Problem In this envisioned future, the "slop problem"—the difficulty of distinguishing AI-generated content from human-generated content—is fully resolved. All attested content is verifiably human, and all AI-generated material is automatically filtered into a separate category. This ensures that only human-witnessed and peer-reviewed content is treated as authentic in public and private discourse.
# Addressing Potential Attacks We consider two main hypothetical attacks and show why they are not systemic threats in this fully attested world. - **Attack 1: Flooding the Zone** In this scenario, adversaries might try to overwhelm the information space with AI-generated noise. However, in this future, all devices and media feeds automatically separate AI content into a distinct category. Only properly attested, human-signed content is recognized as trustworthy. This makes it impossible for unauthenticated noise to masquerade as human truth, no matter how much is produced. - **Attack 2: Identity Theft** While identity theft is a serious concern, in this system it is quickly detected and mitigated. Since a stolen identity would render a person unable to function—no payments, no travel, no access to services—they would immediately reclaim their identity through well-engineered recovery processes. These processes might involve biometrics, legal proofs, social verification, or specialized identity recovery services. Because identity is so central, any anomaly—like being in two places at once—triggers immediate alarms and is rapidly resolved. Therefore, large-scale identity theft does not become a systemic loophole. In conclusion, by embedding self-sovereign identity into all aspects of digital life, we envision a future where the authenticity of human content is guaranteed, and the "slop" of AI confusion is a thing of the past.