Detecting AI is a fool's errand: price every action in tokens to deter AI agents
prescott · x · 2026-09-27
Jason Lowery argues the key difference between humans and AI agents is actions executed per unit of time — AI can act 10,000X faster. So instead of trying to detect AI (a fool's errand), defenses should target behavior: make every command or button on a website cost computational tokens, making it 10,000X more expensive for AI to act than a human. You can't stop AI, but you can make it extraordinarily costly — anyone who has run personal agents knows compute tokens are the biggest limfac.
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