Deepfakes, bots, and AI posing as people are everywhere online, and several initiatives are trying to solve the problem.

Multiple studies suggest that 5–15% of X accounts are bots, and Facebook bans hundreds of millions of bogus users each quarter.

Online games are full of bots and AIs that “grind” through monotonous chores like mine or farming or phony activity for crypto games like Hamster Kombat to get airdrops.

Bots may be repetitious, unpredictable, or make mistakes a person would avoid, making them easy to spot. However, like toupees, people only notice the awful fakes, and the tech is developing so quickly that it's hard to discern what's genuine. According to University of Waterloo research, individuals have trouble detecting human replicants.

In March, 260 individuals sorted 20 face images: 10 real and 10 AI-generated via Stable Diffusion or DALL-E. Only 61% of participants finished the exercise, whereas the researchers expected 85%.

Many efforts seek to overcome the issue by proving humanity.

Shady El Damaty, co-founder of blockchain-based digital identification platform Holonym, demonstrated how his company utilizes “human keys” to identify genuine individuals.

The essence of human keys is private. Not random, but from human traits like biometrics data and personal data like passwords, he told Cointelegraph. Example: generating a wallet using a facial scan.

Civic, another blockchain-based initiative, uses a “simple video feed” to verify a person's identity.

Document verification, Civic vice president Titus Capilnean told Cointelegraph, “adds a lot more friction to the verification process versus a simple liveness plus uniqueness.”

Several blockchain initiatives are following suit. Anti-Sybil verification system Proof of Humanity uses social verification and video submission, while authentication and key management platform Privy securely onboards and manages people at scale.

To prove personhood, Worldcoin's iris-scanning Orbs utilize data to produce unique identities. Despite ZK-proofs and privacy-preserving rules, Worldcoin still raises concerns.

Using biometrics to verify humanity is problematic since privacy-conscious people are wary about giving Big Tech their biometric data.

Biometrics opponents concentrate on monitoring, consent, and third-party data retention.

Holonym addresses such issues by keeping most data on the client's device.

LayerZero conducted a huge anti-Sybil search to eliminate bots trying to cheat the system and claim its airdrop many times.

It recognized hundreds of thousands of addresses as Sybils and/or bots, and its token performance has been far better than projects that gave tokens to bot owners who sold them for profit.

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