Andreessen: Bot screening is impossible; proof of human is necessary
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Marc Andreessen (co-founder of a16z) discusses digital identity and the economic asymmetries of online bot proliferation on the Latent Space podcast.
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“The bots can pass the Turing test. And if the bots can pass the Turing test, then you can't screen for bot. You can't have proof of not a bot, but what you can have is you can have proof of human.”
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