Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/01/verifying-your-humanity-is-harder-every-day.html
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Is this a bot generated test post?
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Over the past four years the definition of “humanity” has also slid substantially.
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One of my fav tweets
I think the moral out the story is, in the interest of “cutting costs,” we’ve done a lot to put computers between people. The quality of our society suffers as a result.
ETA: the last time I signed up for a credit card, the company actually called me to verify my identity. I was astounded they took the time/money to do that. And I really appreciated it.
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there was one behind the wall
So this is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. CAPTCHA quizzes seem so pointless when a honeypot field would do the same without a break in flow and time wasted getting it wrong. But maybe it’s not that simple…
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I hate sites that are so full of themselves that they use a CAPTCHA or picture test just to let you download a manual or do something so menial.
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But, but… I Am Robot
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When it finally becomes impossible, we’ll have to admit it’s no longer the right question.
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What do you mean “merely” human?
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They may well he full of themselves, but a captcha before a download is not evidence of it. It’s an attempt to guard against a DOS attack through the vector of downloading manuals.
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/r/totallynotrobots
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Not falling for it. Nope.
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Since maintaing our humanity seems to be getting harder as well, I hope I’ll pass the verification. These companies all try to design tests to discriminate bots from people, but they limit the tests to things that can be run cheap and easily on online, digital computers. Its never going to work that well. A person can recognize a person, but having a digital computer recognize whether the incoming stream of 1s and 0s originated with a person is a lot harder. The answer is real world, meatspace tests of humanity; the internet will never be good for some things.
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I suppose that honeypot fields are why auto filling my details doesn’t work on some websites.
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I only heard the last bits once I got my wired headphones on, how’s that? …and my window’s got condensation on it.
Wired because 2 front, back and center drivers. I’m a bus with the windows covered in Vick’s Vap-O-Rub!
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But I’m not a robot! I’m not!! I’M NOT A ROBOT!!
Am I?
[Smashes mirror, grabs shard and begins to slice and peel back skin on fore arm]
[Sobs]
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Sobs because no blood, only oil?
Yep, you is a robot
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Oh the humanity!
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