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Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Post by topmonk »

onetimemanytime wrote: post #432
codeulike wrote: post #128

Its getting weird when you have to fill that box in with pen and paper Marci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot? This wasn’t online or anything, she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen,…

>> "...she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen, on real paper, confirming that she was not, in fact, a robot. She claims she isn’t. All robots claim not to be one, so we must be really careful. probably printed app from website and the dealer took it literally

A better question might be "This sentence is false. True or false?"

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Post by c3534l »

codeulike wrote: post #128

Its getting weird when you have to fill that box in with pen and paper Marci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot? This wasn’t online or anything, she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen,…

> She claims she isn’t.

I wonder if the subtlety of that joke will be lost on future generations one day.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Post by tirpen »

robjan wrote: post #420
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it in particular about GPhotos you find incomparable?

Do you have any alternatives? Something that works on most platforms and allows you to automatically backup photos as they are taken.

Dropbox has had automatic photo backup for ages and is available on most platforms.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Post by jcoffland »

thfuran wrote: post #66
jcoffland wrote: post #51

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A small percentage of bad actors using automaton can produce a lot of traffic. So although it may be true that a large portion of the requests coming from TOR exit nodes is malicious, it would be unwise to conclude that most users of TOR have bad intentions.

I don't think anyone is concluding that.

I think a lot of people come to exactly that conclusion.

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Post by _pmf_ »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #223
codeulike wrote: post #128

Its getting weird when you have to fill that box in with pen and paper Marci Robin was buying a Fiat 500X from a West Palm Beach, Florida dealership, and was in the final stages of signing all the paperwork, when she was presented with a strange but simple question: was she a robot? This wasn’t online or anything, she was right there, in person, in front of the sales person, who wanted her to check a box, with a pen,…

I had roughly the same problem. My facebook career lasted for all of thirty seconds before they decided I was a robot and banned my account. I appealed and they asked me to send a photo. I sent them a photo and they said I was still a robot and there was no further appeal. Very helpful. So my choices from that point are to 1) shame them in the media and hope its an entertaining enough story that people like it or 2)…

> I appealed and they asked me to send a photo. I sent them a photo and they said I was still a robot and there was no further appeal.

That's the plot of Blade Runner 2.

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Post by puranjay »

rzzzt wrote: post #220
rothron wrote: post #141

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This would've made an awesome SciFi short story. The twist at the end is that she's lying.

The salesman is a robot as well.

I wonder if in the far future we'll have two androids pretending to be human and trying to fool each other at the same time, only for them to realize that they are both, in fact, robots

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Post by thaumasiotes »

berdario wrote: post #335
shawnz wrote: post #294

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I think that's very unlikely. There are over 100,000 new accounts created on Twitter every day so we would expect a large and frequent amount of bans if what you are saying were true. Furthermore most Twitter visitors don't have accounts so it would be pretty foolish to base their anomaly detection on a metric that most of their visitors fail.

It's actually well known that you'll get blocked by Twitter within the first 2 minutes of registering, whatever you'll do. They probably use it as a way to enforce their "soft" requirement of a phone number. After verifying that you have a working phone number, you'll get unblocked. Also, Twitter routinely renders their tweets unaccessible to non-logged-in users, due to rate limits on their api (which is used by thei…

Hey, I have some experience creating intentionally suspicious Twitter accounts.

There is no phone number requirement. They're just as happy with an email address.

If you provide neither of those, then your account functionality is restricted (with a big obvious banner showing at the top of every page), but you still don't get blocked.

Once I needed to create several accounts at once and then have all but one of them follow the last one. Those accounts got blocked, but it's hard to blame Twitter for that.

Re: Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?

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Post by Kurtz79 »

cortesoft wrote: post #241
rothron wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would've made an awesome SciFi short story. The twist at the end is that she's lying.

Isn't that basically 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'?

Also, "Impostor", still by P.K.Dick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_(short_story)

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