Prove you're human by winning a claw machine

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pinkmuffinere•about 2 hours ago

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

Shank•about 1 hour ago

Of course not. It is clearly a fun toy.

groestl•24 minutes ago

I can prove I'm human by losing a claw machine.

brtkwr•about 1 hour ago

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.

arbol•22 minutes ago

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.

rossvc•6 minutes ago

If the payoff is worth it, no captcha is too expensive.

ikari_pl•about 1 hour ago

So, a paywall is the simple solution

bschwindHN•about 2 hours ago

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.

ozim•19 minutes ago

You don’t need to train it just ask current state of model.

eks391•about 2 hours ago

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

m00dy•about 2 hours ago

I can bypass this captcha just by using gemma4

BLKNSLVR•about 2 hours ago

It's nothing like a claw machine. It picked up the toys twice in two tries.

A human would be incredibly suspicious of this.

numpad0•8 minutes ago

Yeah, real claw machines straight up have tunable win probability controls(subject to local gambling laws).

but this is fun!

hurtigioll•about 2 hours ago

the real CAPTCHA would be having a "this is not realistic" button that only humans would press

marssaxman•about 1 hour ago

My exact thought: this is nothing like a real claw machine.

codelong888•18 minutes ago

lol this is actually fun. in this era of ai, knowing who's real human and who's ai is so underrated

mcyc•about 2 hours ago

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...

tjoff•about 1 hour ago

Because computers turned out to be so bad at chess? :)

jaggederest•about 1 hour ago

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?

mohsen1•about 1 hour ago

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...

spaqin•about 1 hour ago

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.

nomel•about 1 hour ago

> it just reminds me how Internet has fallen.

phpboard added captchas back in 2004.

vasco•about 1 hour ago

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.

TZubiri•about 2 hours ago

>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

thunderbong•12 minutes ago

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

Terr_•38 minutes ago

> 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...)

GuestFAUniverse•about 2 hours ago

npm install randomgotcha

sevenzero•about 1 hour ago

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.

Mistletoe•about 2 hours ago

I wish all captchas were like this. A lot more fun!

shevy-java•about 2 hours ago

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?

latexr•21 minutes ago

A CAPTCHA is not concerned with your biology or philosophy, only with if you’re an automated request.

doctor_radium•about 2 hours ago

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.