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Ben-Z-S t1_jac7qlj wrote

Typically a bot can spam forms easier than a human as they can see the underlying code / bypass things. They can also do it very quickly. Even just moving your mouse might be enough to determine if you're "real" as its actually quite difficult to simulate realistic movement.
If a bot was making multiple accounts or say voting on something they dont have to navigate thr page, they know what a submit button is and can directly select the object

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Real-Rude-Dude t1_jaci4ur wrote

>>Even just moving your mouse might be enough to determine if you're "real" as its actually quite difficult to simulate realistic movement.

A good way to show this is to open paint and then try and draw a straight line or a circle. It's not perfect. Now think about the equation or commands it would take to program a bot to draw that not-perfect line or circle.

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SymphoDeProggy t1_jac8oxj wrote

Is it? Feel like modern machine learning tools and an infinite supply of sites to train against make this very solvable if you're a motivated programmer

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Ithalan t1_jaconoj wrote

Maybe, but as things are now, you only need to increase the amount effort it takes to send spam through your web/account registration form even a bit for it to be unprofitable for the spammer and make them try somewhere else.

If all websites worldwide were to one day have captcha on every webform that could be used for spam, then spammers might start to have an incentive to try and beat it, but right now it's easier and cheaper to just keep trying sites until you find one that is not secured, then send your spam through that until the site owner discovers it and stops you.

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