This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

I sometimes wonder whether the end result of this proliferation of bots is the creation of a "premium" Internet where you are authenticated as a real person before entering. I don't mean a walled garden or a gated platform like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. I mean some sort of application layer protocol running on top of TCP that has real world authentication built in. Any application built on top of that protocol is guaranteed to be used by only real human beings.

I've been thinking about this. I think we may have enough standards to build it today on top of existing protocols.

So what happens if Eve authenticates as a human, then gives Mal (an AI) access to her screen and keyboard?

Then busting "Mal" also busts Eve

Eve is vouching for Mal. And when Mal1, Mal2, Mal3 etc are all vouched for by Eve, then they are all trivially linked.

The far bigger problem is "how do you vouch for a single entitiy". How do you prevent Eve having multiple unlinked accounts.

I think an individual could have multiple digital identities, with varying levels of trust in the veracity of that identity. They would have the ability to create/update/delete (revoke) those identities.