are we basically accepting that DAOs will be run by bots soon?

Man I was looking at some recent governance votes across a few protocols and the amount of obvious botting is just depressing at this point. it feels like every time we come up with a new sybil resistance mechanism, someone just spins up a better script to farm it

and now with AI agents getting actually decent at mimicking random on-chain behavior and passing standard checks, it seems like pure software solutions are just dead in the water.

I really hate the idea of forced traditional KYC for web3 stuff because it completely defeats the point of privacy and just builds another centralized honeypot. was reading this technical deep dive the other day about setting up a private Proof Of Human using ZK tech so you don't actually tie your daily wallet to your real identity. tbh it made me realize we might actually need some kind of hardware or biometric anchor if we want to keep things decentralized without getting completely overrun by server farms

it just sucks that the ecosystem is moving in a direction where simply "proving you are a person" is becoming the hardest part of interacting with ethereum. Idk, curious how you guys think L2s are gonna handle this long term because the current meta of hoping for the best isn't working