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Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by oceanplexian on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:44PM (#37165447)
CAPTCHA is about more than spam.

Big Tech built their empires on scraping and stealing data (How do you think LinkedIn or Facebook got started?) But when we try to scrape them they throw a massive hissy fit, and so they put a lot of engineering into CAPTCHA systems to keep their data locked away. Eventually, the pinnacle of bots will be something that reads the framebuffer, and manipulates a mouse and keyboard to scrape websites.

This has got these companies freaked out, because all the founders know the dirty secret of their origin story, and that someone else can come along and do exactly the same thing to them.

Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by samr71 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:53PM (#37167051)
(This, of course, isn't how LinkedIn or Facebook got started)
Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by verve_rat on Thursday August 17, 2023 @05:20PM (#37168261)
Don't know about LinkedIn, but aren't the roots of Facebook traced back to scraping pictures of women off of Harvard's website?
Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by RichardCA on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:42PM (#37169217)
Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs by oceanplexian on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:29AM (#37172353)
Let’s just say I have insider knowledge, working for the same investors, long before the company even had 100 employees. LinkedIn was built on scraping and stolen data. Same as FB. You can deny it but it doesn’t change reality.