It seems doable, but it also seems like a solution to a set of already solved problems, with a chain of new dependencies that require global acceptance of new infrastructure.
The reason email works is because it pre-dates ubiquitous Internet and is something everyone has.
That said, the public PGP key I generated in 1994 is already in published keystores, can verify my email address, and be shared as a QR code. It even has a recognizable visual thumbprint that works similar to your generated art.
The downside to it is that despite being around since 1993, PGP and OpenGPG never became ubiquitous for this purpose, so even though it solved these issues, it became a curiosity for identity management instead of the de-facto method.
It works though, as long as everyone involved has the tools needed.
It’s sad to me that the answer can’t be “the one you run yourself.”
There’s theoretically no reason why everyone couldn’t run their own mail service who had a domain name. But with spam practices being what they are, self-hosted mail will get binned in most places.
“\ “ and [tab] and * are your friends. I’ve been using spaces in Unix filesystems since the early 90s with no issues. Also, using terminal fonts that•put•a•faint•dot•in•each•space•character helps.
Artists have to submit the recording, artwork and metadata to create Art Tracks,” a YouTube spokesperson wrote in an email statement to Bellingcat.
So they say “auto generated” because the submitter submits an audio track, an image and metadata, and YouTube sticks them together for the user.
There’s no CC track included, no parsing of the Hindi lyrics, no generation or parsing of the images. So at that point, YouTube is really assembling the video track, not generating it.
And Bellingcat is attempting to capitalize on the phrasing to concern troll.