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Re: Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

#22

This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications. Let’s say the goal is a bot-only social network. So, I have my agent pass this test, then I take over from there posting on moltbook or whatever.

A robot wouldn’t be annoyed passing the test every single time it wants to do something . A human would. That’s how you filter.

Re: Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

#23

This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications. Let’s say the goal is a bot-only social network. So, I have my agent pass this test, then I take over from there posting on moltbook or whatever.

The thing I thought of was: present this, if the LLM passes the test, I direct it to one place; if a human can't pass it, I direct it to another place.

Like, maybe this could be a way to mitigate bot traffic.

Re: Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

#25
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate? I was about to ask that question

If something is not NOT human, then it is human. :)

Ha! So basically to get in to a site protected by it, you need to _fail_ the HATCHA.

Re: Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not

#30

Weirdly, I can see how this might be useful.

Can you elaborate? I was about to ask that question

You could put this captcha in a location that wouldn't be very visible for a human, but if the LLM is looking at the HTML he would find this form.

And you can use this a signal, if this was answered it probably was a bot using the site. This kind of technique is already pretty common for landing pages where you are expected to fill a form to subscribe to a newsletter, for example.

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