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Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by stavros on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:12AM (#30414412)
But I don't understand how we can't make a program that has a bit of randomness.
Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by ui4jd73bdj on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:04AM (#30414866)
Sure you can, but it's not trivial to make the random seem like a human random at a large scale. What are the parameters of a human slide and what kind of distributions are they? And there might be things they do under the hood that affect those parameters like fingerprinting. You would need a lot of data to imitate a human, but the provider of the captcha has a lot more data than you to counter your effort.

Thats why it's usually just easier to pay some people pennies to solve them by hand.

Re:Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding... by stavros on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:05AM (#30414882)
Ah, interesting, I didn't think of the information asymmetry there, thank you.