People Are Playing a New DOOM-Themed CAPTCHA
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/01/238238/people-are-playing-a-new-doom-themed-captcha
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> Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a frontend-as-a-service product, just used the company's AI site builder to come up with a new twist on CAPTCHAs, one that [1]invites users to play the classic single-player game DOOM and killing at least three monsters. You can check it [2]out here .
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/01/people-are-playing-a-new-doom-themed-captcha/
[2] https://doom-captcha.vercel.app/
I'm sure (Score:2)
my mother will have no problem with this, at all.
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Yeah, family tech-support calls are going to see an uptick.
so we are not teaching an AI... (Score:5, Interesting)
First thing that came to my mind was that we were training AI's on how to shoot at a moving target.
Of course. (Score:2)
There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
The practical value of an automated kill bot cannot be overstated.
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> There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
You have never been to Russia or North Korea.
Re: Of course. (Score:2)
Define "people"
So what you're saying is... (Score:2)
> There are WAY too many people on this planet and they are WAY too hard to control.
So what your saying is... Thanos was right?
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Yeah, there's no way that an AI could ever be trained on playing Doom ...
The contros scheme is shite (Score:4, Informative)
Arrows to move (like in OG DOOM)?
SPACEBAR TO SHOOT?!
Give me a break! I made more errors because of the weird control scheme (either go gor OG doom, or for modern day shooters) than from the extra speed of the Imps' missiles...
BTW, the map is E1M9, the secret level, military base.
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The classical cheat codes work (iddqd, idfa, idclip), which is about the only way for me to kill any monster on this version.
BTW the only game I ever play is freedoom, about every day.
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On the bright side, the IDDQD and IDKFA cheat codes still work, so I was able to mow down the monsters with the rocket launcher pretty quickly.
Bummer that there is no full screen option that I could find.
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no full screen
that's what's so great about it, it's just like originally playing on my 486sx 25MHz
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I still have my 486-something. It's under my desk, but not connected. Last time I turned it on, earlier this summer, the IDE made a nasty squeal, so I took it out. Haven't bothered to look for a new drive.
Longer CAPTCHAS (Score:3, Funny)
Ah yes, b/c I wrote to Santa if he could only make CAPTCHAS be more involved and take longer, than it'll be the best 2025 ever! Sweet.
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CAPTCHAs are useless and have been for a long time. It's bad enough that they cut the images up in illogical sectors that overlap each other and you have to go through them multiple times. "Choose the traffic lights." Well, does that include the sectors where part of the light is included, or what? Same thing with the stupid fire hydrant and crosswalk crap. This just makes it even more annoying. And then we have Clownflare.
Invite? Or force? (Score:2)
Fortunately I do not come across CAPTHAS all that often. For one or two sites I tolerate it, for the others I move on.
Based on the summary (and the article) the word "invited" is used. Does this mean you have an option to not go through it, or is it just a polite way of saying you have to do it? There's nothing that important I would need to see which would make me waste even more time trying to get to it than being forced to play a game.
Fabulous (Score:2)
I'm sold. I'd have this CAPTCHA any day instead of yet more traffic light and bike identifications.
Yeah, OK, it took me about 5 goes to get through it but it was fun!
That triggers my memory of motion sickness (Score:2)
I usually have no problems with that at all, but the original Doom hit me badly back when. I guess I will solve zero of these.
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I had those issues too, back in the day. I could only handle playing Doom on a smaller monitor and sitting back a ways from it... and, even then, I couldn't play it for all that long.
This captcha thing runs in a tiny little window, though - so I didn't have any issues with nausea.
idfa + spamfire (Score:2)
Oh, this might be worth disabling flaresolverr (or waiting 10-15 minutes for it to get counterstriked again), if only for the nostalgia. Brilliant play, but unsustainable.
THIS.... (Score:1)
Is EXACTLY how you keep non-techie, non-gamer people, OFF your website ;-)
IDDQD (Score:2)
I had to enter GOD mode to beat it.
Didn't work for me in Firefox (Score:2)
But was able to play it in Safari. I died 5-6 times before managing to pass it, though.
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It worked fine for me in Firefox.
turn off fast monsters! (Score:2)
turn off fast monsters!
Games are an interesting idea, but AI can game... (Score:2)
right? Google's Deep Mind was playing games, even learning them from scratch at times (no help/guiding).
I know they were getting Doom running lots of places, but I don't remember a Doom playing AI yet. Doesn't seem impossible though.
I'd almost rather it invented a new game (with AI?) each time. And the person detecting quality was more about experimenting and understanding an odd situation. One that can't be hard coded or assumed somehow. Heck it could be based on bad jokes for all I care.
Almost feels
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> I know they were getting Doom running lots of places, but I don't remember a Doom playing AI yet.
There was some basic deathmatch/co-op bots at the time. They could play long enough to kill three monsters, but weren't smart enough to figure out how to win a level beyond flipping random switches, and often given up and just let the human do it.
Best option is the Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament bots.
I'm definitely a robot it seems (Score:2)
Without any strafing and covering the image with my fingers (I'm on mobile), I am unable to kill any.
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> Without any strafing and covering the image with my fingers (I'm on mobile), I am unable to kill any.
Strafing works on PC using the alt key. but shooting is not control, but space. did not chech if shift is still run
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The trick with this one is to not move forward where you are hit by fire balls. Shoot from where you start and it will attract three guys with normal guns that you can shoot from far away without taking much damage.
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Woohoo, I'm not a robot anymore!
(It was close though).
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My aiming mod doesn't work and I can't see through the walls.
Yeah, so I cheat at Doom. What more proof do you need? l33t sp3@k?