Trust Must Be Proven: Verification Infrastructure for the Synthetic Era
The fabrication of credible identity is now an industrial process. Generative AI has compressed the cost of producing synthetic persons, institutions, and authority signals to near zero, while verifying authenticity remains structurally expensive. This paper presents a verification infrastructure framework for the synthetic era.
synthetic identityverification infrastructureentity-level deepfakesstructural credibility gaptrust architecturemulti-signal detectionprovenance anchoringendorsement loopsepistemic securityHelix Fabricconstitutional AI governance
Cite
Thomas Perry Jr.. "Trust Must Be Proven: Verification Infrastructure for the Synthetic Era." Pastoral Tech, 2026-02-15. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18652596. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18652596
BibTeX
@article{perry2026trust,
author = {Perry, Thomas Jr.},
title = {Trust Must Be Proven: Verification Infrastructure for the Synthetic Era},
year = {2026},
month = {02},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18652596},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18652596},
publisher = {Zenodo},
license = {CC-BY-4.0}
}