Idea to limit the registration of bot accounts

This is just an idea, but I see that some instance prevent bots from bypassing the registration step by asking unexpected questions like "are you human?". Apparently this is the type of question that can easily discern a human answer from a chatGPT answer. So what if the admin of an instance changed the question asked for registration application every few days? Something like " What did you hit for break f4st? " would give bot proof applications and the answers would likely give the admin a good laugh. Not 100% effective of course, but would help for the time being.

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authed@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 3y (4 replies)

You can have a hidden form element and if an answer is present you know it's a bot... Thats what I do on my site and it works pretty well.. pretty easy to bypass though if you are a big target

lvxferre@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y

pretty easy to bypass though if you are a big target

Yup - some bots might detect honeypotting, so you'd need to change it every few days.

kurogane@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 3y

That's clever

ekZeno@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y

I'm not an expert but this seems a cool way to handle Bots, not regarding something they're unable to do but something the do too well 😏👌

T156@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Wouldn't you end up on it when tabbing, ending up marked as a bot?

cwagner@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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kurogane@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 3y

Thank you for the really informative demonstration.
Point taken.
On a side note, this is horrifying.

Cheez@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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sliceable_aspirin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Hold my...something, I'm going in...

fubo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

https://xkcd.com/810 may be relevant here. Mind you, that's from 2010, long before ChatGPT.