But they can just plug an AI into a verified account.

>Who is paying FOSS devs who will be implementing this?

honestly if they let it be known they'd do it for payment the same person who's paying off the politicians to push this through would probably pay them too.

So once my application is running I can just keep querying an age bracket until it flips and then I've successfully determined a date of birth.

> Because in some sense academia is the real world

Isn't at all, it's a completely different system that exists beside the real world with different incentive and reward systems.

>It is funny that spelling and grammar matter more when writing to an admissions officer than to a potential business partner

Things that matter in academia world don't always matter in the real world and vice versa.