TL;DR Tinder and Zoom now offer iris-scan verification to prove users are real humans. Insurance firms report a 71% rise in AI-fraud claims. The proof-of-humanity economy has arrived, and it has arrived in recruitment too. AI-generated CVs are now actively filtered. 46% of CVs flagged as likely AI-generated receive fewer human reviews. The CV that gets through in 2026 is the one that most clearly demonstrates a specific human wrote it about specific work. This post covers the five signals classifiers look for, the before/after that passes, and the six-point checklist to make any CV read as human. I've been building CVPilot , an AI CV optimisation tool, and the counterintuitive finding from 2025 is that too much AI polish now hurts . In 2023 and 2024, candidates rushed to use ChatGPT for CV bullets. Recruiters initially liked the polished output. Hiring managers, less so, once they interviewed the candidates. By mid-2025, ATS vendors responded.…