AI bots are now better than humans at decoding the CAPTCHAs.
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They are just using us to train them more.
Lightning payments would be great alternative to completing those CAPTCHAs to stop spam and DoS.
No, would be bad.
If you make the amount small enough for everyone to be affordable, bots will probably pay it, too.
If you make the amount too high, it's another income for content providers who already screw with your brain through ads and I bet you they won't reduce ads for an additional source of income.
They'd just keep it the same.
See the PayPal & Squared wallet suckers, who changed the rules on refunds. Even if you are confirmed to not owe a refund, you still have to pay the percentage fee.
So, if someone buys something for several hundred bucks by misclicking or whatever being reason & want an instant refund, you immediately lose, for example, 27 bucks for literally no business at all. Nothing.
Now multiply this with several refunds a week/month, depending on your business.
This is just one small proof, that providers would just not give a damn & not reduce any other nuisance & pricing, if they received micro-payments in addition to their current income sources.
Yes, bots pay and thus it is non-trivial — problem isn't bots.
Many VPN IPs are sent CAPTCHAs or just entirely blocked because of naive rate limiting. A Lightning payment could be used instead.
Additional benefit, a small payment can help pay for bandwidth and services instead spending time completing a CATCHA and likely training someone else's model.
Can an AI design a CAPTCHA that it can't solve?