> TL;DR trick bots into revealing that they're not humans, instead of > treating users as guilty until proven human.
I read the article, and the ideas do seem like they could replace CAPTCHAs in sign-up forms indented to prevent spam, but these are the least annoying kind of CAPTCHAs. Barring accessibility issues, the CAPTCHAs in forms aren't much more annoying than the form istelf. The worst CAPTCHAs are the "select every square containing a sign. okay, now do vehicles. whoops, you didn't notice those tiny cars in the corner; let's go back to signs." bullshit. They can take up to a minute if they make you solve three of them, and I have no idea what vision-impaired users are supposed to do. I've never encountered one of these in a sign-up form, but the number of sites that require them just to *access* the site seems to be increasing (I don't have a statistic for that, it's just my impression and could be inaccurate). Since these CAPTCHAs don't prevent spam, my guess is that they are to improve the credibiity of analticks* data. I suspect that a human-centric Internet wouldn't be as profitable as an Internet in which AI are the users and humans are the data served to the AI. *stealing that term from you
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