Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds
New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth
My tin foil hat tells me that these captcha tests were never about preventing actual bots, but rather they were intentionally put in place for google / whoeverelse to get free training on their image recognition software ai.
74You're describing reCaptcha and it's not a secret. It was used to digitize books and improve existing text recognition technology.
There's a TEDx talk from one of the creators from 2011 when they were still widely used.
49It’s not tinfoil at all.
40"To log in, click the stop signs in this image. Please be quick, as our self-driving car is approaching the junction!"
31This was probably a bonus of using them, but they did stop bots. They aren’t meant to stop the sophisticated AI we have now, they are meant to stop swarms of “dumb” bots from creating spam accounts, ddosing servers, etc
A few bots accessing your site doesn’t matter. A million bots do
21Why not both? I remember when I used Android and Google had the “Google Survey” or something like that. It was supposed to be a way of receiving money for answering pols and studies. In reality I was training Google Maps. The app payed me between 40c and 60c for answering questions like “were you recently at ? When? Give 1 to 5 stars for your experience.” In the end I bought several apps with that money.
12I still use it. It pays for discord nitro for me, and an app or three every year.
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That’s not even tinfoil-y at all. That’s exactly what they’re for. These days, they’ve also started branching into training for AI image generators.
8I mean, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that those image tests were being used to to crowdsource AI training data.
5I’m pretty sure that’s explicit
5Training and validating machine learning models was always part of the point of captchas, it's not even a secret
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Where can I get one of these bots? I fucking despise Captcha
18Tanks, I’ll check it out
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Dead internet theory accelerates
17Maybe we are the bots?
8What’s reality? Have you managed to go to end of the simulation?
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Then they should inverse the result so people who can't solve these pass the test
5Well as long as its slowing down bots its doing its job, it was never meant to stop bots per se. This is especially the case with the new proof of work captchas coming out lately, which don't even require interaction, it just makes it very computationally expensive for bots.
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2Since current Captchas do not meet the required security goal of keeping bots away, researchers have called for better and more dynamic approaches to protect websites.
They are not being caught.
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