Bots Have Taken Over Nearly Half the Internet, but Almost a 3rd of Users Can't Tell Difference Options

[Christian J]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/bots-hav...ference-5448718

[Darin McGrew]

"Spotting bots is like finding Waldo in a crowd. Look for repetitive patterns, lack of personalization, or rapid responses. Also, trust your gut. If it feels off, it might just be," he said.

I enjoy taking online opinion surveys, participating in focus groups, etc. One of the things I've noticed more and more is that these surveys ask the same questions repeatedly, only in different ways. For example, a survey may ask your age, and then later ask what year you were born in. If they don't line up, then they reject you (and you don't get the reward for completing the survey). But this makes me think that this might catch humans who are just clicking through the forms as quickly as possible, but not catch bots.

[Christian J]

"Spotting bots is like finding Waldo in a crowd. Look for repetitive patterns, lack of personalization, or rapid responses. Also, trust your gut. If it feels off, it might just be," he said.

I enjoy taking online opinion surveys, participating in focus groups, etc. One of the things I've noticed more and more is that these surveys ask the same questions repeatedly, only in different ways. For example, a survey may ask your age, and then later ask what year you were born in. If they don't line up, then they reject you (and you don't get the reward for completing the survey). But this makes me think that this might catch humans who are just clicking through the forms as quickly as possible, but not catch bots.

Do you think those repeat questions are used to catch bots? I have no idea, but ISTR such repeat questions have been around a very long time. I imagine police interrogators would use them to spot lies. But I also read recently that current "AI" bots can be very incoherent in their answers, so if you ask their age you might get wildly different answers every time.