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October 25, 2010

#810: Constructive explain

Constructive

[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.