Ian wrote:Wait what!? How could a bot guess HOVERCRAFT!? Are we sure he's not just... a dude?
Ahahaha. I feel like it would be really neat to try to get a bot that actually works for something like this working... It's semi-plausible if certain sub-problems are solved first. However, I think it is probably a relatively safe method of weeding out the robots because we can't even have decent automatic captions generated on youtube videos
(it is getting there, though).I am getting the impression that this should just be abused in reverse - the robotsoup forum has always garnered the attention of spammers for some reason. If they're getting payed to sift through account creation and that involves watching a youtube video... Meh, put ads on the youtube video! Of course, we probably don't get that many for it to generate any sort of stable income
. Would be pretty much the most amusing business model ever.And yeah, I am fairly certain that this is actually a real thing - the people getting paid to set up forum accounts to advertise. I am not entirely certain how one would get into such a business, but it is one of the only theories that makes sense at this point. I really do not like the idea that spam-bots have gotten more clever than the average AI on their own, heh.
