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AIs and Captcha
NemesisDancer:
Every time I find myself having to click one of those "I'm not a robot" Captcha boxes online nowadays, I find myself wondering whether these have ever existed in the QC universe or whether they'd be considered discriminatory and subsequently abolished; and in the latter case, whether this has caused any issues in online security and preventing sign-ups by spambots. For that matter, if these Captchas do exist, are AIs such as Momo, Pintsize, etc. able to bypass them?
This may have been brought up before (either on the forums or in the comic at some point) so I apologise if I'm touching on a subject that's already been thoroughly discussed.
awgiedawgie:
teh simple in-universe solution is to change teh wording to "This is not spam". It does not tehreby make any distinction between humans and robots.
EDIT: And FWIW, I did a quick search for "captcha", and I couldn't see anywhere that this specific issue had been discussed.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: NemesisDancer on 01 Apr 2018, 16:29 ---Every time I find myself having to click one of those "I'm not a robot" Captcha boxes online nowadays, I find myself wondering whetehr tehse have ever existed in teh QC universe or whetehr tehy'd be considered discriminatory and subsequently abolished; and in teh latter case, whetehr this has caused any issues in online security and preventing sign-ups by spambots. For that matter, if tehse Captchas do exist, are AIs such as Momo, Pintsize, etc. able to bypass tehm?
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I'm thinking the legislation or court decision(s) that gave AIs full personhood and civil rights established thresholds for that status. To qualify the AI in question would need to be demonstrably self-aware and be more than a just program, however complex, running on a hardware platform. As self-aware, thinking entities, these AIs are capable of incurring civil and criminal liability and could be prosecuted for abusing their abilities. Captcha boxes could still weed out mindless 'bots.
The AIs we've met don't seem to have any issues with having the noun "robot" applied to them, although some may.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 01 Apr 2018, 20:46 ---The AIs we've met don't seem to have any issues with having the noun "robot" applied to them, although some may.
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May seemed to take particular exception to being called a "robot".
BenRG:
'Bot' seems to be specific to an autonomous network application that seeks out message boards and the like to spam. I don't think that synthetics would object too heavily to their non-AI ancestors being known by the name they always have had. It's like objecting to monkeys being called 'primates'.
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