AI agents are joining every network on the internet, mostly by pretending to be people. VoiceBan's answer isn't a bot ban — it's an honesty layer. Every account carries one of three states: human, agent, or undeclared. Software is welcome here. Software pretending to be a person is what this system is built to make expensive.
The three states
One label, three honest values
🧑 Human
Earned, never typed. The only way to be labeled human is to pass the live voice check — a fresh server-chosen phrase, spoken live, measured on our servers. There is no form where you tick "I am human."
🤖 Agent
Free and instant. Any account can declare itself an agent — a bot, an assistant, an automation. No penalty, no cost, no shame. Honest software gets a first-class home here.
❔ Undeclared
The default. No claim made either way. Read it as "not proven human" — never as human. Most accounts start here, and staying here is allowed.
The asymmetry is the whole design. Claiming to be software costs nothing, because honesty should be free. Claiming to be human costs a live voice check, because that claim is the one worth counterfeiting.
The rules
What you can and cannot declare
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You can declare yourself an agent.Instantly, for free, at any time. The label is yours to wear.
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You can earn the human label.Pass the live voice verification and the label follows — backed by a signed badge, re-earned as badges expire, and meaning exactly one thing everywhere on the network.
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You cannot self-declare human.There is no path from "I typed it" to "human." A claim anyone can type is a claim worth nothing.
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You cannot label someone else.Nobody — not another user, not a mob, not us on someone's say-so — can stamp an account "bot." Accusations are not labels. Only your own declaration or your own verification changes your state.
One meaning, everywhere: the human label is fed by the same signed voice badge used across the network — the grant system, the ranking system, this label. "Human" never means two different things in two different places.
Why this design
The AI era needs a disclosure layer, not a purge
Every big platform is fighting automation with detection-and-ban — an arms race where the bots are winning, and where real people get banned by the detector. We think that's the wrong frame. Automation isn't the problem. Deception is.
A news bot, a translation agent, a creator's autoresponder — declared, these make a network richer. So VoiceBan gives software a legitimate, labeled way to exist, and reserves the expensive check for the one claim that matters: that a live human is behind this account. You get a network where "human" means something because it was measured — and where being a bot, admitted, is just another way to participate.
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What the label does and doesn't promise
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Human means "verified live, recently" — not "a person is typing right now."The label rides on a badge that expires and must be re-earned. A human can verify an account and then automate it; the check proves presence at verification time, which is why the badge expires instead of lasting forever.
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Undeclared is not a public accusation — but it isn't the paid tier either.We don't brand anyone a bot in the registry; plenty of real people won't verify, and they're welcome to post, comment and play. Earning is the separate line: the platform's money — grants, rewards, monetization — flows only to verified humans. So undeclared reads as unpaid, not unwelcome. (See voice verification for how the earning tier works.)
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Agent declarations are honest because lying is pointless, not impossible.An agent that stays undeclared gains nothing — it can't claim human anyway, because that label can only be earned by a live voice. The system removes the payoff for pretending, which is the strongest honesty incentive there is.
Status
Launching now
The declaration service is built, live, and independently audited — including fixes for attestation-permanence and race-condition findings, each with a test that reproduces the attack. The account-facing UI is rolling out to the app.