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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.

maybe the bots should employ those people to pass the tests

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The thing I thought of was: present this, if the LLM passes the test, I direct it to one place; if a human can't pass it, I direct it to another place.

Like, maybe this could be a way to mitigate bot traffic.

So then bots will just intentionally fail the test?

If they can do that I guess it's not working as intended.

Depends! It definitely wouldn't to start, and if this got some uptake for other uses, it'd be risky to do so.

Wouldn’t scrapers just tell their bots to not solve the HAPTCHA?

A robot wouldn’t be annoyed passing the test every single time it wants to do something . A human would. That’s how you filter.

Filter what? Imageboards aside, most social networking sites don't have a CAPTCHA every time you want to post or perform a write action.

You got it backwards. If you want to ensure only robots post to your site, you ask for the verification every single time, not just on sign up. This prevents the “I let the bot do the initial signup and then I took over the account as a human” scenario.

Simply use a browser plugin (or any other mechanism) that invokes the agent when the "HATCHA" appears.

“Simply”

But since you built the bot, you can have it do anything? Answer all HATCHAS and then do anything according to my instructions?

Even if they did it wouldn't stop a human from interdicting.

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

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LOL! Qwen's probably one of my favorite language models right now TBH. Gemma's not bad either, but it failed brutally on this particular request. Apparently it's incapable of counting syllables. :)

Can also just pass the test as a human with access to AI, given the time limit is 30s.

Let’s say the goal is a human-only social network.

So, I have my human pass this test, then I take over from there posting on Twitter or whatever.

Correct.

>This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications.

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