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Even before AI, bot detection was everywhere.

Captcha tries to do bot detection. Cloudflare tries to do bot detection. Imperva tries to do that. If you think about it, even Google is in the same business – trying to tell organic links from the gamed bot-generated ones, and the content, and the ad clicks too. Any reputable bank app fingerprints your phone and often refuses to run if it looks like a bot/farm phone/emulator, or just was rooted (or, ironically, otherwise modified so that you actually have control over your own device).

With the avalanche of OpenClaw-like things, the need to tell between humans and bots will skyrocket. Bots cannot be allowed to pass KYC on any financial service. Tons of websites and services will pay good money to ensure that the human interaction (along with all of the upsell opportunities) is the only thing that’s allowed on their main properties.

So when someone says, humans will be completely replaced by OpenClaw, you can bet that there will be a whole industry working very hard to make sure it doesn’t happen.