Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️The contact form on my website is basically only ever filled out by robots, so I added a checkbox that says, "I am a robot. Only check this box if you are a robot." https://stevendbrewer.com/contact-me/
Robots appear to find it irresistible.
Philip Bragg@stevendbrewer I have a pre-checked checkbox for "do not send" and humans realise they have to uncheck it, robots don't. I've tried so many tricks like this and it's the first one that really seems to work. Of course the robots wll read this and I'm doomed now…
Mensch, Marina@synx508 maybe something double, like uncheck this box and next screen: are you sure? @stevendbrewer
@energisch_ @stevendbrewer Perhaps, I feel that It might work against robots but at the cost of annoying humans even more than my uncheck box alone.
@synx508 @energisch_ Maybe you could have a whole series of screens:
Are you sure you're not a robot?
Are you really sure?
Are you really really sure?
It would certainly cut down on submissions…
@stevendbrewer @energisch_ Once you've decided it's a robot it's only fair that it gets the full ELIZA treatment.
dpflug@synx508
Ooh, have a honeypot that just infinitely loops forms to fill, discarding results?
@stevendbrewer @energisch_
Ooh, have a honeypot that just infinitely loops forms to fill, discarding results?
@stevendbrewer @energisch_
Urban Hermit@synx508 @stevendbrewer @energisch_@troet.cafe now I am loving the idea that AI, roving for content to add to training databases, gets routed to intentionally frustrating and time wasting interactive AIs. We are in the super early days of an arms race that will do nothing but use up resources as humans dive into the apocalypse.
We will soon be at that point where aliens find a automated, but dead, world.