I mean you just described a captcha. Its a proof of work. But the issue is it is very hard to make ones a computer cannot complete.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @sime 26 Aug
This guy gets it.
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Yes, I believe that to be case-- CAPTCHAs are supposed to thwart script kiddies from creating bots which would do something on a website repeatedly to reap the benefits in an unfair way.
Definition from this webpage:
The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University.
Having said that, now that we have AIs that are already insanely powerful, I find it hard to believe that today's AIs cannot solve the commonly used CAPTCHAs that annoy us and are eating away at our most valuable asset: time.
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"This is the way we've always done it"
Sometimes you'll get: "This is the industry standard" which is basically the same thing.
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For a lot of sites it won't fit the UX goals because some devices will absolutely choke if you make it hard enough to actually deter bots, the option exists though: https://mcaptcha.org/
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How else is Big Tech supposed to get unpaid labor to train the AIs that make your job easier?
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 26 Aug
AI must be really good at making busses, motorcycles and traffic lights
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does AI sweat as much about tiny fractions of a motorcycle being in the next square
everyone says we're training them but I want to see them solving these things too to see how pedantic they are
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Why haven’t you built it yet?
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A proof of work and get paid for doing the effort of doing the cloudflare thingy is a good idea. I think that is what you want. Instead of forcing users whom are not spamming the the network into subservient life.
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