Doom CAPTCHA: The Nightmare Mode Test That Only a Sadist Could Love
Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, has turned CAPTCHA into a gaming challenge with Doom on nightmare mode. While this CAPTCHA might delight gamers, its practicality and legality are questionable. With AI evolving, CAPTCHA’s days as a bot defense may be numbered. Can you survive Doom’s nightmare challenge?
Hot Take:
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you bots, make them fight demons in Doom on nightmare mode. Hats off to Guillermo Rauch for adding a sprinkle of chaos to CAPTCHA, making us question our gaming skills, sanity, and how exactly strafing works in the digital demon world.
Key Points:
- Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, created a CAPTCHA that requires users to play Doom on nightmare mode.
- CAPTCHAs, once a robust bot defense, are becoming obsolete as bots get better at solving them.
- Rauch’s Doom CAPTCHA is built with Vercel’s AI-powered web development tool, v0.
- The legality of using Doom’s assets for CAPTCHA is questionable, as only the game’s engine is open source.
- As a tech demo, the Doom CAPTCHA showcases Vercel’s v0 capabilities in a unique way.
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