Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

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141 points timshell | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source

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logsr ◴[25 Jun 25 17:26 UTC] No.44379782[source]▶

In a few more years there will probably be virtually no human users of web sites and apps. Everything will be through an AI agent mediation layer. Building better CAPTCHAs is interesting technically, but it is doubling down on a failed solution that nobody actually wants. What is needed is an authentication layer that allows agents to act on behalf of registered users with economic incentives to control usage. CAPTCHA has always been an economic bar only, since they are easy to farm out to human solvers, and it is a very low bar. Having an agent API with usage charges is a much better solution because it compensates operators instead of wasting the cost of solving CAPTCHAs. Maybe this will finally be the era of micro payments?

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1. catlifeonmars ◴[26 Jun 25 01:03 UTC] No.44383285[source]▶

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In this few years scenario why would there be a need for websites anyway? The bots can just use APIs.

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2. logsr ◴[02 Jul 25 04:51 UTC] No.44440347[source]▶

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we have had GUIs and CLIs for the same functionality for many decades. i doubt the branded website/app layer will go away. AI agents will become the predominant use case, but you still need a human accessible manual control interface. websites and apps are also the on-ramp for acquiring users from advertising, and that is not likely to go away. consumer interest in using AR products is limited and it may take generational timelines to see broad adoption of AR tech (if ever) so physical display advertising will likely remain a thing for a long time.

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