CAPTCHA programs used to determine whether a website visitor is a human or a bot come in a standard format. Think text disambiguation (where users type letters into a field they see, among other manipulations), image recognition (you're selecting all the squares in a grid with a picture of a bicycle, say); and tick checking (click that box that says “I'm not a robot”).
But Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, AI site builder To come up with a new twist on CAPTCHAs, asking users to play the classic single-player game DOOM and kill at least three monsters. You can check it. Here.
it's not. Totally original Idea (CAPTCHA part as DOOM). However, it tops the charts of Hacker News, an audience of mostly developers. There are notes.Some complain that it's too difficult. Another praised the project as “so metal,” while another said, “There's a lot of monsters; Tried me 3-4 times… just like a real captcha!”