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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

How would you design a test that only a human can pass, but a bot cannot?

Very simple.

In every area of the world, there are one or more volunteers depending on population / 100 sq km. When someone wants to sign up, they knock on this person's door and shakes their hand. The volunteer approves the sign-up as human. For disabled folks, a subset of volunteers will go to them to do this. In extremely remote area, various individual workarounds can be applied.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dick pics and tit pics. Bots do not have dicks and tits.

Gives new meaning to Tits or GTFO

[โ€“] InEnduringGrowStrong 2 points 2 years ago

Ehhhh unstablediffusion can generate more tits and dicks than you possibly ever consume in your lifetime. Possibly way more fingers in hand too though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There'll be AI art for that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This has some similarities to the invite-tree method that lobste.rs uses. You have to convince another, existing user that you're human to join. If a bot invites lots of other bots it's easy to tree-ban them all, if a human is repeatedly fallible you can remove their invite privileges, but you still get bots in when they trick humans (lobsters isn't handshakes-at-doorstep level by any margin).

I convinced another user to invite me over IRC. That's probably the worst medium for convincing someone that you're human, but hey, humanity through obscurity :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I can't help but think of the opposite problem. Imagine if a site completely made of bots manages to invite one human and encourages them to invite more humans (via doorstep handshakes or otherwise). Results would be interesting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This would tie in nicely to existing library systems. As a plus, if your account ever gets stolen or if you're old and don't understand this whole technology thing, you can talk to a real person. Like the concept of web of trust.