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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by ademarre on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:39PM (#8695872)
> Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving

How do they do that? This sounds like whitehat use of blackhat tools. Are they using captcha-solving farms?

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by ertdfgcb on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:03PM (#8696329)
There are ways to solve captchas somewhat reliably programatically. I suspect this plugin only works on certain computer generated captchas, not the street sign ones.

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automa...

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by logn on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:00PM (#8696313)
They send the captcha to their servers and how they solve them is a secret.

http://www.webvisum.com/en/main/faq#q15

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by walterbell on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:54PM (#8696553)
Is there a web service where one could purchase AI recognition of fuzzy text, e.g. a street sign or book cover in a photo?
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by logn on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @07:43PM (#8697258)
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by walterbell on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @08:04PM (#8697336)
Very helpful, thank you! I have a difficult OCR problem to solve, rather than identity. Interesting to see that the market price for "being human" is $0.00139.
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by logn on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @08:09PM (#8697360)
For non-captcha OCR also consider Mechanical Turk. And there are a variety of services built on Turk too.
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by ademarre on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:39PM (#8696470)
The fact that this works shows that distorted-text captchas are no longer effective.

From the Google's blog post:

> our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy