wouldn't do much to prevent bots
If they switch to canvas rendering and include some twist (eg. shoot x but not y, limit input rate, etc), then I think that a considerable computing effort would be necessary to break the lock
Doom Captcha (2021)
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#42Didn't know a simple interface with a sound switch and a game start button can be designed this badly.
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#43Unfortunately, just this week someone fine-tuned the Mistral-7B LLM to play DOOM :P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813174
The ASCII intermediate interpretation also seems unnecessary and very limiting. But perhaps that's to keep it near realtime, looks like 1 FPS?
And why run on a Mac? Why not a beefy PC with a GPU that can do the calculations faster?
Still, does seem like a fun challenge. Maybe with further tuning or training it can level up
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#44wouldn't do much to prevent bots
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#45Who else is clicking "click to start" like me? It turns out you have to choose one of the buttons. I thought they are there to allow me to enable/disable the sound, but they also both act as start buttons. Didn't know a simple interface with a sound switch and a game start button can be designed this badly.
Re: Doom Captcha (2021)
#46Who else is clicking "click to start" like me? It turns out you have to choose one of the buttons. I thought they are there to allow me to enable/disable the sound, but they also both act as start buttons. Didn't know a simple interface with a sound switch and a game start button can be designed this badly.
Click to start:
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#47Who else is clicking "click to start" like me? It turns out you have to choose one of the buttons. I thought they are there to allow me to enable/disable the sound, but they also both act as start buttons. Didn't know a simple interface with a sound switch and a game start button can be designed this badly.
Yeah it doesn't even need the option IMHO, I don't think sound is needed here...
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#50Absolutely love it. Unusual captcha's are great. Reminded me of this one: http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
The question I got was surprisingly simple: it asked to find "the least real root of the polynomial p(x) = (x+5)(x-4)(x+1)". A determined attacker can quickly hack together something with Tesseract and feed it into even GPT-3.5 to get the correct answer to questions like these. I guess that means the captcha is doing its job, since running LLMs isn't very cheap or scalable. But any harder problem means you start filt…