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A comment on RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard.

Re:RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard by spacecadet404 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:15PM (#47328863)
This reads like a troll post, but it does pose a good question. Is there realistically any way to CAPTCHA anymore?

I'm thinking that we can't reliably sus out what's human and what's AI from here on out, and I don't think there's any good way to enforce something like a human emdash. The way we're going you won't be able to verify unless users scan their iris or a 3 letter agency vouches for them first.

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Re:RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard by vanillameow on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:46AM (#47333544)
>Is there realistically any way to CAPTCHA anymore?

Talking to someone in real life.

Of course that's taking the piss, but realistically that is sort of the answer: Having access to a side-channel through which you can identify that a person is in fact a person, coupled with the trust that they won't try to sleight you by making you waste your attention. Honestly with how much LLM drivel is being generated and the sort-of renaissance of the personal website, blog, and RSS, I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of consensus-trust-based network for human authors were established.

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