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I get the feeling that newer generations of CAPTCHAs will no longer be trying to filter out bots from entering human-made sites, but humans from entering bot-made sites.

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That makes no sense. You just need an undocumented binary interface to keep most humans out, no need to create an HTML page and add a reverse-CAPTCHA.

But the humans keep reverse engineering our APIs and making beautiful UX on top of them

I meant that in the future, most sites will be made by bots and using them will be too hard for most humans...

To be honest, it already feels like a resource denial effort. Reminds me of Paul Virilio’s description of systems that deliberately inhibit human speed.

CAPTCHA is just usefully accidental punishment for evading surveillance capitalism while casually browsing the web. There are sites where getting through a CAPTCHA is literally impossible if you are using privacy controls, you just get stuck in an endless loop of CAPTCHA completion. But if you're "logged in" to the surveillance network, there's zero friction whatsoever.

Indeed.

Furthermore, we can easily imagine that in +/- 10 years, your device will ask you to "verify your identity" using your ID card and a selfie,

and in return, you will get this juicy Web Environment Integrity token that acts like a key to unlock Captcha and pornographic websites.

Like the ordering kiosks at McDonalds?

How good are bots at simulating human behavioral patterns these days?

On my back burner I have a crowd-sourced data app and I keep wondering how I'm going to keep bots out. The ideas of shadow banning, throttling, or an approval queue for everything except known 'real' humans and new users that seem relatively human keeps popping up (eg, 2 approval queues for 'probably a bot' and 'probably not a bot')

It's nice that we named it so forward-thinking. Not a necessarily Completely Automated Public Turing test to Keep Computers Out.

That’s not hard to do

There are always things computers do way better than humans. That’s why they have been created in the first place!

Anyway, what will the new CAPTCHAs consist of? If the answer is “nothing”, then that’s the age of AGIs

The CAPTCHA can ask humans to do a non-trivial research task, like look up the latest news and give an opinion, or actually appear on camera etc.

Both of those are prone to be broken by a reasonably good AI, plus verification of either would be too computationally heavy to be cost effective (Also likely involving AI)

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