Kind of funny how "verified human" might end up being the new blue tick

I was thinking about this the other day. We used to treat the blue checkmark on Twitter or Insta as this little status thing, like oh you're somebody. LinkedIn's got its own verified badge now too. And the whole point of those was basically "this account is legit."

But with how much AI and bot stuff is everywhere now, I feel like the flex is quietly shifting. It's not "I'm verified as important" anymore, it's becoming "I'm verified as an actual human being." Which is a hilarious bar to have to clear honestly. Congrats, you're a person, here's your badge.

And the way you'd earn that badge is kind of low effort compared to the old verification circus, from what I've seen it's usually just a quick selfie, you show your face for a second and it confirms a real person's there. A few tools already do versions of this (Selfie Check, iProov, Incode, I think). I don't remember the exact details of each, something about proving you're a real unique human without your actual name or ID attached to it. So you could imagine a near future where that little "real human" tick is worth more than the old blue one ever was.

Kind of a funny and weird timeline where proving you're not a robot is the new clout.

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tomerlrn•24 days ago•4

We really speedran from “prove you’re important” to “prove you exist.”

skorulis•24 days ago•2

X blue checkmarks just mean you're paying money, it doesn't do anything to check the account is a human.

Deep_Helicopter4591•23 days ago•2

☠️ this needs to be in the next set of updates. Twitter would go wild.

Super-Chance-8349•23 days ago•1

The funny part is the blue check went from meaning "this is genuinely a notable public figure" to "this person paid for status," and verified human is skipping straight past status to a baseline requirement. It shows how AI bots have flipped the value: proving you're not a bot is now more useful than proving you're somebody.

Heidi_Fuller•24 days ago•1

The weird part is that proving you’re human doesn’t really prove anything about the account itself. A real person can still use bots, buy followers, or post AI-generated content

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Chu-Take•23 days ago•1

What!? I didn't know it was that easy to get a blue tick, I thought you needed to gain some popularity first.

I totally agree with the human verification part. We can't write or act in certain way online so we look/ sound more human. Browsing social media has become more like a "guess is this AI or not",

It's actually one of the reasons I decided to build a social media platform myself, I'm tired of all this. I want a space where I know everything I see is genuinely human.

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