AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs

Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by wongarsu on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:07AM (#37162849)

For a long time now CAPTCHAs only make bots more expensive. There are plenty of (human-staffed) services that will solve your captchas for $0.001-$0.005 per solved captcha. Better AI lowers the cost, but it's not necessarily a massive change of the status quo.

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Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by RetroTechie on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:29PM (#37164195)

In a way that is silly:

Increase the cost of having bots do it, while...

...also increasing the time wasted by humans. Time which is considered much more costly/valuable than whatever $ value spent on the bots.

So maybe the time has come to regard captcha's pointless, and just drop that nonsense.

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Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by semi on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:47PM (#37164504)

That was true of early captchas but Google changed it from 'wasting humans time' to 'using humans time to train their machine learning algorirhms'

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Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by mistrial9 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:39PM (#37165373)

about to say the same - but to be clear, it is "training computer vision models" a specific use of machine learning

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Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by PBnFlash on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:41PM (#37167724)

The difference between zero and nearly zero can be pretty large at scale.

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Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by vGPU on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:12AM (#37171577)

I would legitimately pay for this. I hate doing captchas and the internet seems to hate Firefox.

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