Is there reason to believe this is a good discriminator of human vs AI? I didn't see any about page, or statistic, or anything like that, but maybe I'm just missing it?
edit: The page links to [1], but [1] has none of the information I'm really looking for -- why should somebody use this tool?
I don't know what a next generation CAPTCHA should look like, but I know anything game-shaped will be a trivial target for RLVR. That's like trying to beat Stockfish. That ship has sailed.
Claude Opus 4.8 one-shotted it... I think we should gear these systems towards making the cost of abuse expensive as they will be able to get around these things more and more easily.
Captcha are already expensive at scale due to escalating checks when abuse is detected. You have to orchestrate and pay for residential proxies, containers with different fingerprints, different behavioural data, clean IP rep, emulate device performance to avoid revealing youre running on a server... A 1-shot doesn't scale against this.
Yup. I could guess what needs to be grabbed without reading the prompt because it was always the front-most object. It also has the largest grab area; some of the plushies can't even be grabbed.
Reverse captcha: only robots can reprove one of the Euler problems on the fly? Statistically speaking we can round the people who can into the outlier group, right?
I'm tired of constantly having to prove I'm a human. Especially if it's trying to be lighthearted and fun on the surface, it just reminds me how Internet has fallen.
Imagine you get pwned for trying this out in your home project and the APT escalates to your company repos and infects your company assets, and then the post mortem comes in and you have to explain this is what infected the company it stack
Coworkers on project: "Containers? Not running things as root? Hah, you're overengineering things: Just follow the readme where it says to install the daemons and run the code directly. It works fine. Then we can show how we're using AI!"
(Yeah, I know it's hard to be perfectly secure, but still...)
If it is DNA then why would I need a claw machine? (Note that this defnition on DNA, which in itself is mega-odd since DNA differs, would mean that via synthetic biology one could yield humans - according to such a definition. But this does not have to be correct, so the definition would be flawed.)
Time and time again, I prove that I'm human by giving this crap the finger and then visiting some other site. It's calling out a false positive and then exercising good taste.
Just stop this insanity already.
Is there reason to believe this is a good discriminator of human vs AI? I didn't see any about page, or statistic, or anything like that, but maybe I'm just missing it?
edit: The page links to [1], but [1] has none of the information I'm really looking for -- why should somebody use this tool?
[1] https://github.com/mortspace/playcaptcha
Congratulations! You have proven you are human by complaining about the test instead of solving it. Redirecting you now...
Of course not. It is clearly a fun toy.
I don't know what a next generation CAPTCHA should look like, but I know anything game-shaped will be a trivial target for RLVR. That's like trying to beat Stockfish. That ship has sailed.
The most important part that most commenters did not read:
"And to be clear: it checks that someone is playing, not who they are. Keep your real checks behind it."
It's just a game, not a CAPTCHA.
Thanks to this game, I was able to change my identity from a slightly less fallen human into a machine. Thank you
It's nothing like a claw machine. It picked up the toys twice in two tries.
A human would be incredibly suspicious of this.
Yeah, real claw machines straight up have tunable win probability controls(subject to local gambling laws).
but this is fun!
the real CAPTCHA would be having a "this is not realistic" button that only humans would press
My exact thought: this is nothing like a real claw machine.
I can prove I'm human by losing a claw machine.
Claude Opus 4.8 one-shotted it... I think we should gear these systems towards making the cost of abuse expensive as they will be able to get around these things more and more easily.
It's just a concept, not a real test.
Captcha are already expensive at scale due to escalating checks when abuse is detected. You have to orchestrate and pay for residential proxies, containers with different fingerprints, different behavioural data, clean IP rep, emulate device performance to avoid revealing youre running on a server... A 1-shot doesn't scale against this.
If the payoff is worth it, no captcha is too expensive.
So, a paywall is the simple solution
The thing to grab is always on the front layer. Seems like an AI could be pretty easily trained to defeat this.
Also when you move the claw left and right, it "leans" in the wrong direction.
You don’t need to train it just ask current state of model.
Yup. I could guess what needs to be grabbed without reading the prompt because it was always the front-most object. It also has the largest grab area; some of the plushies can't even be grabbed.
Fun idea though
I can bypass this captcha just by using gemma4
Much better than Google’s 'find objects in pictures'!
Lichess has a checkmate captcha that I think is cute.
It requires you to solve a mate-in-one puzzle to, e.g., post on the forums.
(Sorry, don't have a better link, there wasn't any non-technical I could find about it).
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/q19wgq/til_lichess_d...
Because computers turned out to be so bad at chess? :)
Reverse captcha: only robots can reprove one of the Euler problems on the fly? Statistically speaking we can round the people who can into the outlier group, right?
Codex with Browser Use (Codex 5.3 Spark) was able to solve this with a simple prompt
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0b80b07b-d88f-414...
lol this is actually fun. in this era of ai, knowing who's real human and who's ai is so underrated
i d rather play 1-1
I'm tired of constantly having to prove I'm a human. Especially if it's trying to be lighthearted and fun on the surface, it just reminds me how Internet has fallen.
> it just reminds me how Internet has fallen.
phpboard added captchas back in 2004.
I prove I'm a human by giving up trying to use the website. A machine would just relentlessly keep trying. You should try it.
>npm install playcaptcha
Imagine you get pwned for trying this out in your home project and the APT escalates to your company repos and infects your company assets, and then the post mortem comes in and you have to explain this is what infected the company it stack
> npm install
Coworkers on project: "Containers? Not running things as root? Hah, you're overengineering things: Just follow the readme where it says to install the daemons and run the code directly. It works fine. Then we can show how we're using AI!"
(Yeah, I know it's hard to be perfectly secure, but still...)
If you see the code, that dependency just happens to be another file in the repository [0]
The only dependency is the 'motion' library.
[0]: https://github.com/mortspace/playcaptcha
npm install randomgotcha
I really like this! Also the other things you can find on the website. Cool stuff! Makes me want to get better at Frontend shenanigans.
I wish all captchas were like this. A lot more fun!
What makes me human?
If it is DNA then why would I need a claw machine? (Note that this defnition on DNA, which in itself is mega-odd since DNA differs, would mean that via synthetic biology one could yield humans - according to such a definition. But this does not have to be correct, so the definition would be flawed.)
If it is not DNA, how else to prove it?
A CAPTCHA is not concerned with your biology or philosophy, only with if you’re an automated request.
Time and time again, I prove that I'm human by giving this crap the finger and then visiting some other site. It's calling out a false positive and then exercising good taste.