<![CDATA[Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it.]]>RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116602190697510886

Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. And then the test is that you only allow people through if they click "I cannot read this"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/e77b7394-0412-43c8-9558-ff498d2e0bba/proposal-what-if-you-designed-a-captcha-that-looks-like-static-to-a-human-but-contains-just-enough-bare-structure-that-all-llm-ai-providers-can-see-clear-letters-and-numbers-in-it.RSS for NodeThu, 11 Jun 2026 08:29:51 GMTTue, 19 May 2026 16:33:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 18:50:34 GMT]]>@brazmogu
There are four lights!
@mcc

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://flyovercountry.social/users/encthenet/statuses/116602741337258485https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://flyovercountry.social/users/encthenet/statuses/116602741337258485Tue, 19 May 2026 18:50:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 18:48:56 GMT]]>@mcc (slightly related, but I've seen some health surveys in Quebec include a question which explicitly states it's actually a question to see if you're really paying attention, and you have to answer "I do not wish to answer this question" instead of a spectrum between "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree";I imagine it does well in dealing with the "what if my survey responder just doesn't care" problem of statistics)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/brazmogu/statuses/116602734957897003https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/brazmogu/statuses/116602734957897003Tue, 19 May 2026 18:48:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 18:44:27 GMT]]>@mcc problem is, you'd need the captcha to overwrite the ingrained impulse that people have of trying to appease to authority (i.e. if they're told there's a number there, they will try to guess a number instead of admitting they see nothing)

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/brazmogu/statuses/116602717280834445https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/brazmogu/statuses/116602717280834445Tue, 19 May 2026 18:44:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 17:18:20 GMT]]>@zimzat @mcc @lahosken I'm not sure what the web interface shows for muted/blocked accounts (I haven't seen anybody quoting those yet), but I did see some quote boxes showing "Instance/User limited by your server"; can't remember if there was a link to show the quote anyway.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116602378686448608https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116602378686448608Tue, 19 May 2026 17:18:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 17:16:41 GMT]]>@jernej__s @mcc @lahosken Interesting, I hadn't considered that. I've seen it mainly on the official Mastodon clients if the logged in user has muted/blocked the quoted author. Phanpy at least says "[user] muted" and the option to show it anyway.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/zimzat/statuses/116602372194314888https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/zimzat/statuses/116602372194314888Tue, 19 May 2026 17:16:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 17:11:56 GMT]]>@mcc @lahosken (you can see the quoted post by clicking through to mastodon.social; glitch-soc instances make this easy by having the timestamp link to the original server, regular Mastodon has to go through the ⋯ menu).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116602353527538773https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116602353527538773Tue, 19 May 2026 17:11:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 17:09:11 GMT]]>@mcc @lahosken Not glitchy, that instance blocks (scroll to the bottom, click on Moderated servers) a ton of servers:

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116602342680764260https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jernej__s/statuses/116602342680764260Tue, 19 May 2026 17:09:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 16:51:50 GMT]]>@mcc because after that they would know to lie

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://solarpunk.moe/users/vv/statuses/116602274478663707https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://solarpunk.moe/users/vv/statuses/116602274478663707Tue, 19 May 2026 16:51:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 16:51:33 GMT]]>@mcc it would only work once though, right?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://solarpunk.moe/users/vv/statuses/116602273334365161https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://solarpunk.moe/users/vv/statuses/116602273334365161Tue, 19 May 2026 16:51:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 16:46:35 GMT]]>@lahosken the mastodon implementation of quote posts is extremely glitchy

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116602253812648673https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mcc/statuses/116602253812648673Tue, 19 May 2026 16:46:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 16:44:15 GMT]]>@mcc ?? not sure, but maybe that quoted post is only visible to people who subscribe to the poster

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/116602244664651486https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/116602244664651486Tue, 19 May 2026 16:44:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Proposal: What if you designed a CAPTCHA that looks like static to a human but contains just enough bare structure that all LLM AI providers can see clear letters and numbers in it. on Tue, 19 May 2026 16:35:22 GMT]]>@mcc Counterpoint: the purpose of captcha is not to filter out bots, it's to make humans do work for free.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://yiff.life/users/tael/statuses/116602209726922901https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://yiff.life/users/tael/statuses/116602209726922901Tue, 19 May 2026 16:35:22 GMT