Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

NathanielThomas , 10 months ago

I failed a captcha repeatedly until I discovered you can listen to a description and then enter it. Visually I could not figure out what I was looking at

profdc9 , 10 months ago

Everyone knows that the real purpose of CAPTCHA tests are to train computers to replace us.

hex , 10 months ago

This but unironically… The purpose literally is to train computers to get better at recognising things

RobotToaster , 10 months ago

Specifically to help train AI for Google’s self driving car division.

grue , 10 months ago

Specifically to force all of us to do unpaid labor for Google.

Where’s my fucking paycheck‽

Karyoplasma , 10 months ago

Your paycheck comes in the form of personalized ads.

over_clox , 10 months ago

The funniest part of that is the people designing the AI systems seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that they’re slowly but surely trying to eliminate their own species. ☹️

sheogorath , 10 months ago

Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

Draconic_NEO , 10 months ago

And also to frustrate people who use anonimization techniques including use of the Tor Network to get them to turn off their protections to be more easily fingerprinted.

Phen , 10 months ago

Curious how this study suggesting we need a new way to prevent bots came out just a fews days after Google started taking shit for proposing something that among other things would do just that.

sprl , 10 months ago

I’ve had to do 15 different captcha tests one after the other and they still wouldn’t validate me today.