My tin foil hat tells me that these captcha tests were never about preventing actual bots, but rather they were intentionally put in place for google / whoeverelse to get free training on their image recognition software ai.
You’re describing reCaptcha and it’s not a secret. It was used to digitize books and improve existing text recognition technology.
There’s a TEDx talk from one of the creators from 2011 when they were still widely used.
“To log in, click the stop signs in this image. Please be quick, as our self-driving car is approaching the junction!”
It’s not tinfoil at all.
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I still use it. It pays for discord nitro for me, and an app or three every year.
That’s not even tinfoil-y at all. That’s exactly what they’re for. These days, they’ve also started branching into training for AI image generators.
I’m pretty sure that’s explicit
I mean, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that those image tests were being used to to crowdsource AI training data.
Training and validating machine learning models was always part of the point of captchas, it’s not even a secret
Dead internet theory accelerates
Where can I get one of these bots? I fucking despise Captcha
Tanks, I’ll check it out
Maybe we are the bots?
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Then they should inverse the result so people who can’t solve these pass the test
Well as long as its slowing down bots its doing its job, it was never meant to stop bots per se. This is especially the case with the new proof of work captchas coming out lately, which don’t even require interaction, it just makes it very computationally expensive for bots.
Yeah well…maybe that’s how the bots are getting caught? By being too fast/too precise?
Since current Captchas do not meet the required security goal of keeping bots away, researchers have called for better and more dynamic approaches to protect websites.
They are not being caught.
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