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Is it even possible to have an inverse captcha without time bounds? Humans can use agents behind the scenes to crack it, right?
by efebarlas 7mo ago
Is it even possible to have an inverse captcha without time bounds?
Humans can use agents behind the scenes to crack it, right?
- alfonsodev 7mo agoThat's what I though too, maybe I'm missing something or I don't fully get it. But the human is always behind what's the difference if they go and sign up or tell an agent that they must sign up for you ?. My best guess is that this a way of making a system talk to your agent without you knowing what they are talking about ? As a way of not exposing the real sign up method ?
- echoangle 7mo agoSince it’s just used once, you can also just have an agent solve the captcha and then use the returned api key yourself. This has to be engagement bait.
- phoronixrly 7mo agoIt's flame-bait.
- jubilanti 7mo agoTo me this reads as obviously a joke for marketing to the HN crowd (it worked), but their product is built around web agents, it is not a bad thing to have in the onboarding flow to make sure the agent is configured correctly.
- gregpr07 7mo agoYeah, we are aiming all OpenClaw/Hermes Agent agents to sign up for free without humans intervention, so you need some sort of proof-of-stake (or proof of compute) algorithm so that a simple deterministic algorithm can't just claim thousands of API keys. Most agents (at least in the current token subsidised market) don't care about token consumption, so the stakes are very small for the user!
- eliemichel 7mo agoWhat prevents the person who used to write a simple deterministic algorithm to call an LLM a thousands times?
- lukasec 7mo agoWe do have time bounds. For our purposes, a human using an agent is fine. Our main goal is to let in everyone's agents (OpenClaw, Hermes...) and prevent deterministic API-key-farming scripts.