I really like this! Also the other things you can find on the website. Cool stuff! Makes me want to get better at Frontend shenanigans.
Prove you're human by winning a claw machine
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#22Codex with Browser Use (Codex 5.3 Spark) was able to solve this with a simple prompt
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b80b07b-d88f-414...
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#23Claude Opus 4.8 one-shotted it... I think we should gear these systems towards making the cost of abuse expensive as they will be able to get around these things more and more easily.
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#24It's nothing like a claw machine. It picked up the toys twice in two tries. A human would be incredibly suspicious of this.
My exact thought: this is nothing like a real claw machine.
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#25Claude Opus 4.8 one-shotted it... I think we should gear these systems towards making the cost of abuse expensive as they will be able to get around these things more and more easily.
So, a paywall is the simple solution
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#26>npm install playcaptcha Imagine you get pwned for trying this out in your home project and the APT escalates to your company repos and infects your company assets, and then the post mortem comes in and you have to explain this is what infected the company it stack
> npm install
Coworkers on project: "Containers? Not running things as root? Hah, you're overengineering things: Just follow the readme where it says to install the daemons and run all code and plugins on your dev-box. It works fine, then we can show how we're using AI!"
(Yeah, not as good as completely separate computer, diminishing returns, but still...)
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#27I can prove I'm human by losing a claw machine.
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#28Claude Opus 4.8 one-shotted it... I think we should gear these systems towards making the cost of abuse expensive as they will be able to get around these things more and more easily.
It's just a concept, not a real test.
Captcha are already expensive at scale due to escalating checks when abuse is detected. You have to orchestrate and pay for residential proxies, containers with different fingerprints, different behavioural data, clean IP rep, emulate device performance to avoid revealing youre running on a server... A 1-shot doesn't scale against this.
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#29What makes me human? If it is DNA then why would I need a claw machine? (Note that this defnition on DNA, which in itself is mega-odd since DNA differs, would mean that via synthetic biology one could yield humans - according to such a definition. But this does not have to be correct, so the definition would be flawed.) If it is not DNA, how else to prove it?
A CAPTCHA is not concerned with your biology or philosophy, only with if you’re an automated request.
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#30The thing to grab is always on the front layer. Seems like an AI could be pretty easily trained to defeat this. Also when you move the claw left and right, it "leans" in the wrong direction.
You don’t need to train it just ask current state of model.