October 25, 2010
#810: Constructive explain

[Cueball is talking to Megan.]
Cueball: Spammers are breaking traditional Captchas with AI, so I’ve built a new system. It asks users to rate a slate of comments as “Constructive” or “Not constructive.”
[Close up of Cueball.]
Cueball: Then it has them reply with comments of their own, which are later rated by other users.
[Megan standing next to Cueball again.]
Megan: But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated constructive and helpful comments?
[Close up of Cueball again.]
Cueball: Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.