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Psychological Proofs and Reverse CAPTCHAs (fortnow.com)
8 points by amichail on Aug 1, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"The problem is to somehow convince most people that you are really a chatbot and not a human."

Er. Is that seriously a problem? I talked to one of the chatbots for about 15 seconds and virtually every response I got was poor


But suppose you get a few responses that seem surprisingly good. You might think that there's a human watching the chat and responding every once in a while.

If you don't have an interest in chatbots, consider another example: targeted advertising in gmail. How do you convince people that there is no human involvement in this targeting at all?




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