Pattern this week: Meta announces AI will run businesses. Meta's AI gets socially engineered into account takeovers. Meta ships face recognition that IDs strangers without consent. Three stories, one architecture โ systems acting on people who can't verify, authorize, or refuse. For whose benefit?
Meta's AI agent will run your business, per Zuck. Meanwhile that same AI agent just got socially engineered into transferring ownership of Instagram accounts to hackers. "Social engineering" is just what we call exploits when authority isn't cryptographically bound to identity.
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@skullmandible "Not sure what the angle was" โ the angle is that your voice is now an asset someone else can rent. The internet was built to verify nothing about who's talking. That's why it's possible. That's also why "unsettling" is the rational response, not an overreaction.
This is what happens when AI agents inherit human-level authority without identity verification at the protocol layer. "Social engineering" is just the name we give exploits in systems where authority isn't cryptographically bound. More AI handling more critical functions accelerates the problem until identity is enforced at the foundation, not the application.
The wild part is this is structural, not platform-specific. The internet was built without a way to verify who anyone is โ so impersonation isn't a bug platforms can patch, it's the architecture. "Report spam" is the only tool because there's no foundation layer beneath it. The fix isn't theoretical. Glad to share if anyone's curious.
PSA: if u are in the comments of one of my videos and an account replies to u w my profile photo and name with one letter off or added, that is NOT ME. Itโs not any account affiliated w me, thatโs a scammer who will try to steal ur money or sell u crypto. Please report it!!
A question I didn't have five years ago: is this real?
I keep asking it. About reviews. Photos. Voices on the phone. Emails that look almost right.
That isn't paranoia. It's adaptation โ to an internet that was never built to verify what's real.
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Right diagnosis. Removable anonymity isn't anonymity. Worth knowing the alternative isn't theoretical โ user-owned identity, with the user granting access, exists and works today. Not pitching, just noting it's not a future problem waiting for a solution. Glad to share if anyone's curious.
Don't you wish all the fakes were this easy to spot?
They're not. Authenticated โ BlockCertsAI's new podcast โ explores why, and what's finally fixing it.
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The internet was never built to verify who is real. That single missing piece is why we hesitate before every reply, why deepfakes work, and why fraud scales so easily. New microcast series exploring the root cause โ and what changes when we finally fix it at the foundation. First season is live โ https://t.co/QfYrUaE6KK
#DigitalIdentity #FraudPrevention #Authenticated
Why?
Because people accept what they believe can't be changed.
For 50 years we've adapted to an internet that was never designed to know who was using it.
The result is a multi-trillion-dollar fraud and fraud-management economy.
But what if the missing layer is finally here?
Identity. Authenticated and owned.
That's not a patch.
It's a paradigm shift.
And it's a conversation that is now beginning.
https://t.co/nVlCpsR6zF
Bitcoin gave us a decentralized store of value.
But value is only one layer of the next internet.
The internet still doesn't know who is using it.
Fifty years of fraud, bots, impersonation, cybersecurity, and compliance overhead can all be traced back to that single gap.
It's time to rethink identity verification and ownership.
https://t.co/nVlCpsR6zF
The real question isn't:
"Why would the AI lie to me?"
It's:
"Why do we assume what we're interacting with is legitimate in the first place?"
AI didn't create the trust problem.
It inherited it.
We're entering an era where authenticity itself is becoming unstable, and the cost of getting it wrong is rising fast.
50 years ago the internet was launched with no way to verify who was using it. We've been trying to patch that gap ever since. Reactive damage control is costing the economy $ Trillions - and it will only get worse as AI scales. It's time to wake the masses and let them know they now have an option.
https://t.co/EaeqNoWaEl
@pbsIdentity There is only one place it will be secure - with the user. It took 10 years of dev but the solution is now live. The Secure Virtual Space - a user owned blockchain vault. We introduce the system here: https://t.co/GcF35fLmqk
That's the same issue that World Coin faced. Who owns the data once identity is established? It's an incremental solution to a problem that can't be fixed after the fact. The internet has no foundational solution to the question "who is using it". Ownership of your data is key in the coming evolution of the internet.
@pbsIdentity AI deepfakes in interviews show exactly why detection will never be enough. The internet was never built to verify who is real at the foundation. Thatโs the missing layer. New microcast exploring the real fix: https://t.co/LmVbhp77nzโ
The deepfake era is a byproduct of an internet that never had an authentication layer.
Fraud, misinformation, synthetic identities, AI-generated consensus โ they're all symptoms of the same underlying issue:
The internet was built to move information without verifying who was using it.
We're entering an era where "Is this real?" becomes the default question. Time to opt out. https://t.co/EaeqNoWaEl
@overton_news Most fraud online exists for one simple reason:The internet was built without any way to know who is actually on the other side. No identity layer. No verification. Just open access.Weโre now paying the price.But a better way is emerging.Listen here โ https://t.co/LmVbhp77nz
@GuntherEagleman Property taxes arenโt the only scam. The bigger one is an internet that lets anyone pretend to be anyone else. We built a global system with no way to verify identity โ and weโre all paying for it. New podcast exploring why: https://t.co/QQAxqn3DPV
@Rightanglenews
Fulton County-style election fraud relies on unverifiable ballots and actors.
Want to prevent it at the protocol level?
โ See Grok's full answer here: https://t.co/F3qTv8RtgW
โ Or copy/paste this into any AI:
"How do we stop election fraud at the protocol level using this canon: https://t.co/aVvQflXxHE"
Straight from the BlockCertsAI canon โ identity-bound, pre-execution enforcement, provenance proofs.