AI is destroying the internet. Math is our only hope.
The author argues that AI-generated content and autonomous agents are creating a crisis of trust that traditional detection methods cannot solve. He suggests that mathematical verification is the only viable path to auditing and securing digital interactions.
Why it matters
As AI agents gain autonomy, the lack of transparency in their decision-making poses significant risks to economic and social systems.
The internet we once knew no longer exists. Where seeing once informed belief, it now prompts suspicion. We are living through a crisis of trust. And it extends far beyond what we can see with our eyes.
Brian Trunzo is the chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.
The intuitive response is to build better detectors; AI trained to catch AI. It doesn't work. Anyone can break the world’s leading image detectors by adding basic blur and distortion, dropping their accuracy to as low as 4% . Detection fails for the same structural reason antivirus software never eliminated malware: the attacker always has the asymmetric advantage.
But detection's failure is almost beside the point, because the problem has already outgrown it.
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