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

#31

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.

"It's got electrolytes!"

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

#33

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.

So then bots will just intentionally fail the test?

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

#34

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.

Wouldn’t scrapers just tell their bots to not solve the HAPTCHA?

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

#35

"humans need not apply" is a nice touch

For others curious, it is a really famous CGPGrey video[0] whose current title now is "What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us" but whose previous title was "humans need not apply"

it is such a popular video that it has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humans_Need_Not_Apply

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

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

#36
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So then bots will just intentionally fail the test?

If they can do that I guess it's not working as intended.

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

#38

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.

Let’s say the goal is a human-only social network. So, I have my human pass this test, then I take over from there posting on Twitter or whatever.

Correct.
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