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

#41
Cool concept, but lots of processing to get to that point still.

Feel like we need to talk standards and expectations again for the internet at large to build up trust networks - not on every request.

Efficiency seems so far away from engineering standards now. Odd how we got here.

GATCHA would be a better name but I digress

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

#42

Aren't LLMs notoriously bad at math? Although I guess they may just spin up Python to do math these days.

> Aren't LLMs notoriously bad at math?

Compared to computer algebra systems, sure.

Compared to the overwhelming majority of humans, absolutely not.

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

#43
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This is quite frankly unnecessary. Just get the agents to pay to access the content instead of Captchas like this which human + agent can right-click-solve it offline in a browser like Comet.

> human + agent can right-click-solve it offline in a browser like Comet

You are almost certainly right. And yet, this is a good start. I did not think of this, so kudos to mondaycom.

> Just get the agents to pay to access the content

How would you identify who is a human versus agent?

How would you get them to pay? Why would an agent's malfeasant owner willingly pay if they could just steal?

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

#44

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.

Yeah, this seems to be more like a concept piece. Just something to talk about, not really useful

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

#49

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.

  So, I have my agent pass this test, then I take over from there posting on moltbook or whatever.
Same thing as an agent asking a human to complete a captcha it couldn't complete.

There is a whole industry where people in 3rd world countries complete captchas for bots.

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