Re:Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA w...
by zwegner on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:06PM
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Good point. I imagine that detecting such behavior will also be pretty difficult. It's one thing in a forum, where you'd maybe want to discriminate against idiots (but that would still leave you open to the problem of shills/sock puppets). But for big companies like Google, would they really want to open that can of worms?
Of course, there's a quite relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
Re:Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA w...
by im3w1l on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @07:25PM
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I think a big problem is Sybil attacks. Let's suppose I make a bot that posts thousands of reports of my computer crashing after using product X. To determine if such a post is bad behavior or not, you have to know if the claim is genuine. That can't be determined by the content of the post itself.
On the other hand, why is that we insist on humanity? None of the systems can block a captcha-solving team based in Nigeria. What we need to block is bad behavior by users and not their humanity.