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by singpolyma3 63 days ago
...why? Once my agent has a key I, the human, can also use it. And surely any human use would be less intensive than any agent use.
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Exactly. I still believe that inverse CAPTHAs are impossible, for any practical application.

Is this just a marketing stunt?

To be fair, what's the practical application supposed to be for proving a user is a bot?

Silly solutions for silly problems :^).

Well, when the moltbook story was everywhere, later people thought it was some big gotcha that "oh, they were actually humans."

So, showing true agent to agent interactions is interesting, but one could never be sure that's what you were actually seeing unless you were in control of all the agents.

Main goal is to let in everyone's agents (OpenClaw, Hermes... these are our best customers), while keeping out deterministic API-key-farming scripts.

If a human uses the API key after, that's fine. You also get access to our free tier if you sign up the traditional way clicking around in the UI

Because now you know their company exists!
But once a human has a key his agent could use that and people still like to use ordinary CAPTCHAs.
Right - perhaps title could be "prove you are an robot, or have access to one"