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timshell

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About timshell

proof of human @ poh.org

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    I think many cognitive scientists think language is a core part of human cognition, and that LLMs were a major advance in AI/cognitive science due to connecting AI algorithms with …

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    This was the core premise behind my research during grad school and beyond. My favorite project — which ultimately became my dissertation — was a proposal to connect reinforcement …

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    My team has been working on this in the concept of Turing Test and human vs. AI discrimination: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06524 Specifically, our approach is to separate classic o…

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    > In that case you could just add a login form This is the product insight. We're not going to deploy Stroop tasks for authentication :)

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    Thanks all for the discussion! Would like to highlight two parts that maybe didn't come fully through, and we'll work on making this clearer: 1. CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents…

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    Comment #48326882

    I mean, their CAPTCHAs presumably have tons of data collected over the years, and they can't detect a pretty clear AI agent here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeTpCdUc4Ls

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    Comment #48326853

    Yeah, we benchmarked against a few bot detection provides end of last year ( https://research.roundtable.ai/bot-benchmarking/ ), and Turnstile didn't do great when it came to AI ag…

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    This is relatively close to our conclusion from the paper: unless agents are specifically trained for the task and know all the information ahead of time, they're not able to gener…

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    Comment #47565178

    My grad school research was on computational models of human/machine cognition, and I'm now commercializing it as a 'proof-of-human API' for bot detection, spam reduction, and iden…

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    Notes from the trough of sorrow: why we killed our own product

    In December 2024, Roundtable was a survey fraud detection company. Our product Alias analyzed typing patterns in open-ended text fields to catch bots and AI-generated responses. It…

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    Comment #46622889

    https://mayank-agrawal.com/

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    Comment #46304554

    https://research.roundtable.ai/bot-benchmarking/ :)

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    Comment #46303228

    Yup! It depends on your use case. Cloudflare is really good at network bot detection. Rate-limiting is super helpful here, for example during DDoS attacks. Our customers are a litt…

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    Comment #46302590

    Check out a demo of a similar tool we created ( https://model-guessr.com/ ) that was bot-gated by Roundtable Proof of Human. Happy to talk more details about PoH (disclaimer: I'm a…

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    Comment #45881505

    The 'Process Turing Test' extends the CAPTCHA from 'What would a reasonable person click' to 'How would a reasonable person click'. For example, hesitation/confusion patterns in CA…

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    Yeah, we've looked at it in the context of reCAPTCHA v3 and 'invisible behavioral analysis': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeTpCdUc4Ls It doesn't catch OpenAI even though the mou…