Discussion
Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents
singpolyma3: ...why? Once my agent has a key I, the human, can also use it. And surely any human use would be less intensive than any agent use.
tony_landis: Right - perhaps title could be "prove you are an robot, or have access to one"
AgentNews: Pure genius! I had my agent hit the endpoint and I realized it returned a jumble of text: "if 七 wor~kers co.mplet/e{ | a job in 十七} days but 四 ] quit a^ft|e?r ^ day_ 三 ~ how many to{tal da[y;s> to fin>i?sh" but it was in japanese! Unfortunately my agent proceeded to solve the reverse CAPTCHA and got back the API key. So, I asked it to keep hitting the endpoint again until it returned another CAPTCHA that was in japanese kanji and it did (without solving it this time) and I got "a s:tore h?as ^ 二十 pe@rcent off< items- over 五十 : dollar;s and 八 ~ percent } of\f> ; i]te[ms u~nd~er: # 五十 do/ll@ars wh-ats } the c.omb>ined pri|c;e of a 一 百 二十 一 dollar item a]nd> a* 九 dollar} i!tem" And this time I was able to translate that into "a store has 20 percent off items over 50 dollars and 8 percent off items under 50 dollars what's the combined price of a 121 dollar item and a 9 dollar item?" I solved it and got 1210.8 + 90.92 = 105.08. I will admit I messed up a little bit on translating the kanji and I got a little assistance from my agent pointing out that I was wrong, but overall this was good fun, well done!
pxc: [delayed]
Zetaphor: Get the API key, hit the claim link, sign up for a new account, verify my email, go to the homepage:Application error: a server-side exception has occurred while loading cloud.browser-use.comGreat first impression!
loloquwowndueo: > TL;DR: just ask your agent to summarize this post for you.Holy shit - why don’t they produce an AI summary and plonk it in there for everyone to use? The energy savings across all people who’ll read the summary would be staggering!
jstanley: But once a human has a key his agent could use that and people still like to use ordinary CAPTCHAs.
stavros: Because now you know their company exists!
consumer451: Exactly. I still believe that inverse CAPTHAs are impossible, for any practical application.Is this just a marketing stunt?
kingstnap: To be fair, what's the practical application supposed to be for proving a user is a bot?Silly solutions for silly problems :^).
0xOsprey: I aggregated a list of "reverse CAPTCHAs" here for anyone interested: https://x.com/0x_Osprey/status/2043020254289248469
