The latest academic paper on “personhood credentials” - a purported solution to solve the problem of deep fakes, AI bots, authenticity, etc., on the internet.

My questions are: who gets to issue the personhood credentials? Why can you only have one? Who enforces this.

My take is that there is still not an appreciation of the root of the problem. Enabling self-generated npubs and signed events to begin with. Without that starting point, an eventual authoritarian intervention is unavoidable.

Curious if anyone else has takes on this paper?