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freak-cha

Winner (160 teams)

HackHarvard · 2025

A test that proves you're a real human and not an AI. Instead of clicking pictures of traffic lights, you answer by sticking out your tongue in different directions, which deepfakes can't fake.

In the age of SORA 2 and Google Veo 3, deepfakes have blurred the line between human and AI-generated faces. Our inspiration for Freak-cha came from iOS 26’s accessibility tongue-scrolling feature. An innovative way to interact with technology using subtle gestures. We wanted to take that idea further by designing a verification system that AI simply couldn’t replicate. Freak-cha is a tongue-based biometric authentication system that challenges users to prove their humanity through facial expressions and tongue gestures, turning security into a playful, interactive experience. We built Freak-cha as a CAPTCHA process with multiple stages.

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