lol this is actually fun. in this era of ai, knowing who's real human and who's ai is so underrated
pinkmuffinere 1 hours ago [-]
Is there reason to believe this is a good discriminator of human vs AI? I didn't see any about page, or statistic, or anything like that, but maybe I'm just missing it?
edit: The page links to [1], but [1] has none of the information I'm really looking for -- why should somebody use this tool?
Claude Opus 4.8 one-shotted it... I think we should gear these systems towards making the cost of abuse expensive as they will be able to get around these things more and more easily.
arbol 5 minutes ago [-]
It's just a concept, not a real test.
Captcha are already expensive at scale due to escalating checks when abuse is detected. You have to orchestrate and pay for residential proxies, containers with different fingerprints, different behavioural data, clean IP rep, emulate device performance to avoid revealing youre running on a server... A 1-shot doesn't scale against this.
ikari_pl 29 minutes ago [-]
So, a paywall is the simple solution
bschwindHN 2 hours ago [-]
The thing to grab is always on the front layer. Seems like an AI could be pretty easily trained to defeat this.
Also when you move the claw left and right, it "leans" in the wrong direction.
ozim 2 minutes ago [-]
You don’t need to train it just ask current state of model.
eks391 1 hours ago [-]
Yup. I could guess what needs to be grabbed without reading the prompt because it was always the front-most object. It also has the largest grab area; some of the plushies can't even be grabbed.
Fun idea though
m00dy 2 hours ago [-]
I can bypass this captcha just by using gemma4
BLKNSLVR 2 hours ago [-]
It's nothing like a claw machine. It picked up the toys twice in two tries.
A human would be incredibly suspicious of this.
hurtigioll 2 hours ago [-]
the real CAPTCHA would be having a "this is not realistic" button that only humans would press
marssaxman 38 minutes ago [-]
My exact thought: this is nothing like a real claw machine.
mcyc 1 hours ago [-]
Lichess has a checkmate captcha that I think is cute.
It requires you to solve a mate-in-one puzzle to, e.g., post on the forums.
(Sorry, don't have a better link, there wasn't any non-technical I could find about it).
Because computers turned out to be so bad at chess? :)
jaggederest 54 minutes ago [-]
Reverse captcha: only robots can reprove one of the Euler problems on the fly? Statistically speaking we can round the people who can into the outlier group, right?
mohsen1 46 minutes ago [-]
Codex with Browser Use (Codex 5.3 Spark) was able to solve this with a simple prompt
I'm tired of constantly having to prove I'm a human. Especially if it's trying to be lighthearted and fun on the surface, it just reminds me how Internet has fallen.
nomel 1 hours ago [-]
> it just reminds me how Internet has fallen.
phpboard added captchas back in 2004.
vasco 1 hours ago [-]
I prove I'm a human by giving up trying to use the website. A machine would just relentlessly keep trying. You should try it.
TZubiri 2 hours ago [-]
>npm install playcaptcha
Imagine you get pwned for trying this out in your home project and the APT escalates to your company repos and infects your company assets, and then the post mortem comes in and you have to explain this is what infected the company it stack
Terr_ 22 minutes ago [-]
> npm install
Coworkers on project: "Containers? Not running things as root? Hah, you're overengineering things: Just follow the readme where it says to install the daemons and run the code directly. It works fine. Then we can show how we're using AI!"
(Yeah, I know it's hard to be perfectly secure, but still...)
GuestFAUniverse 1 hours ago [-]
npm install randomgotcha
2 hours ago [-]
sevenzero 48 minutes ago [-]
I really like this! Also the other things you can find on the website. Cool stuff! Makes me want to get better at Frontend shenanigans.
Mistletoe 2 hours ago [-]
I wish all captchas were like this. A lot more fun!
shevy-java 2 hours ago [-]
What makes me human?
If it is DNA then why would I need a claw machine? (Note that this defnition on DNA, which in itself is mega-odd since DNA differs, would mean that via synthetic biology one could yield humans - according to such a definition. But this does not have to be correct, so the definition would be flawed.)
If it is not DNA, how else to prove it?
latexr 4 minutes ago [-]
A CAPTCHA is not concerned with your biology or philosophy, only with if you’re an automated request.
doctor_radium 2 hours ago [-]
Time and time again, I prove that I'm human by giving this crap the finger and then visiting some other site. It's calling out a false positive and then exercising good taste.
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edit: The page links to [1], but [1] has none of the information I'm really looking for -- why should somebody use this tool?
[1] https://github.com/mortspace/playcaptcha
Captcha are already expensive at scale due to escalating checks when abuse is detected. You have to orchestrate and pay for residential proxies, containers with different fingerprints, different behavioural data, clean IP rep, emulate device performance to avoid revealing youre running on a server... A 1-shot doesn't scale against this.
Also when you move the claw left and right, it "leans" in the wrong direction.
Fun idea though
A human would be incredibly suspicious of this.
It requires you to solve a mate-in-one puzzle to, e.g., post on the forums.
(Sorry, don't have a better link, there wasn't any non-technical I could find about it).
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/q19wgq/til_lichess_d...
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b80b07b-d88f-414...
phpboard added captchas back in 2004.
Imagine you get pwned for trying this out in your home project and the APT escalates to your company repos and infects your company assets, and then the post mortem comes in and you have to explain this is what infected the company it stack
Coworkers on project: "Containers? Not running things as root? Hah, you're overengineering things: Just follow the readme where it says to install the daemons and run the code directly. It works fine. Then we can show how we're using AI!"
(Yeah, I know it's hard to be perfectly secure, but still...)
If it is DNA then why would I need a claw machine? (Note that this defnition on DNA, which in itself is mega-odd since DNA differs, would mean that via synthetic biology one could yield humans - according to such a definition. But this does not have to be correct, so the definition would be flawed.)
If it is not DNA, how else to prove it?