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Jacob Fox

Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free

A World Orb iris eye scanner being held by someone.

What a time to be alive: a time where we're being asked to prove we're alive and human. We have, of course, been 'proving' we're human for many years now, though it's always been easy to forget that's what those CAPTCHA tasks are up to.

Now, though, with AI becoming increasingly able to beat Turing tests and the likes, it's increasingly important to be able to verify whether someone online is a person or a bot. So, lest we head towards a vindication of the dead internet theory, we also need increasingly more accurate methods for distinguishing neurons from silicon.

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