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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 157 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

relevant XKCD

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  • [–] 60 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    huh

    That... Actually seems like not that bad of an idea (at least for forum/reddit/lemmy bots)

    Well, if you ignore the infeasibility aspect of getting the humans to cooperate and stuff

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Wasn't that basically the intention behind the Upvote and Downvote systems in Lemmy, StackExchange/Overflow, Reddit, or old YouTube? The idea being that helpful, constructive comments would get pushed to the top, whereas unhelpful or spam comments get pushed to the bottom (and automatically hidden).

    It's just that it didn't really work out quite the same way in practice due to botting, people gaming the votes, or the votes not being used as expected.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yep the flaw is assuming that humans would actually select for constructive comments. It's a case where humans claim that's what they want, but human actions do not reflect this. We'd eventually build yet another 'algorithm that picks what immediately appeals to most users' rather than 'constructive'. You'd also see the algorithm splinter along ideological lines as people tend to view even constructive comments from ideologies they disagree with unfavorably

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    Bots on Reddit already steal parts of upvoted comments and post them elsewhere in the same post to get upvotes themselves (so the account can be used for spam later)

    Even with context they can be very difficult to spot sometimes.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Is it really such a bad thing when the humans that are unable to cooperate do not get access?

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