The Verification Trilemma

The digital age faces a critical challenge in information verification, centered around what we call the “Verification Trilemma” - the seeming impossibility of simultaneously achieving scalability, accuracy, and trust. Current systems must sacrifice one of these crucial elements: human fact-checking lacks scalability, automated systems struggle with accuracy, and blockchain solutions face trust implementation challenges. The following sections examine how these limitations manifest across different verification approaches, particularly as AI-generated content continues to accelerate the spread of misinformation.