Quis verificatores verificat? This installment of the Artifact series covers a discussion with ChatGPT (known locally as Marge) that covers a range of topics, all more or less centered around questions of AI and authenticity. We end up at what I think is the real meat in this conversation, the issue of verification in the face of easily fabricated/manipulated digital signals. One aspect of this issue is the Recursive Trust Problem - enlisting third-party verification services