Re:Waymo Hits Cyclist in SF
by aetch on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @10:45PM
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The computers don’t need you to do captchas anymore. The captchas are just solved problems being used to slow down bots and spammers these days.
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Re:Waymo Hits Cyclist in SF
by al_borland on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:30AM
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Are they though?
You're linking to discussion of an article that explains bots are solving CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA faster and more accurately than humans.
I don't understand what you are trying to say, but I don't think it aligns with the evidence you're providing.
Re:Waymo Hits Cyclist in SF
by al_borland on Thursday February 08, 2024 @10:55PM
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You mentioned…
>The captchas are just solved problems being used to slow down bots and spammers these days.
If bot are solving these problems faster and more accurately than humans, it’s not really slowing down the bots and spammers anymore. That is also a solved problem.
Well, if it is solving CAPTCHA better and faster than humans, that is a useful signal. Maybe they monitor how often an IP address figures something out and if it gets too many right they +1 a suspicion counter. I dunno. Implementing the CAPTCHA solving bot also takes time and expertise; it'd filter out some low-ability spammers.