• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Captchas te not meant to deter all bots. It’s meant to make it ever so slightly expensive that a mass DDOS attack would be extremely expensive to perform. Think like thousand sof requests per second, all being Captcha’d and how much it costs to run AI. It’s current not a feasible solution.

    There is cheaper AI that can solve Captchas though, and it’s only gonna get cheaper.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      It’s long been cheap enough that you can pay a call center full of people in a developing country to solve them for you. Going to be a while before AI is cheaper than that.

      Having used them to protect a few web sites from spammers filling up forms, they do cut down on the bullshit. This makes things more convenient for the people reading the information coming in from those forms, but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth the cost of everyone else having to pick out the bicycles in the picture.

  • Cistello@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    I have an extension which solves most Captchas for me It does it better than me which is why I use it

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    There’s a lot of misunderstanding in this thread about how captchas work.

    What modern captchas examine isn’t actually your ability to solve the puzzle… It’s how you solve it. Things like mouse movements and how you type are big factors. So a bot would process for a moment, and then basically copy and paste in the answer, whereas as a human is going to type at a normal pace, often with pauses as they double check the details. Same goes for the click the tiles challenges. A bot will work through systematically, a human will bounce around, and their timings will be very different.

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Captchas have largely been solvable by machines at a rate higher than humans for a long, long time.

      It is very easy to train a model to behave like humans do by simply having a sample of human inputs.

      Here is an article from august 2023 covering how much better machines are than humans at accomplishing captchas of many flavors. Sauce

  • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m curious if it could solve the traffic light and crosswalk ones, I would try but I’m out of free image uploads from asking it to explain memes to test its cultural knowledge.

      • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        The majority of people right now are fairly out of touch with the actual capabilities of modern models.

        There’s a combination of the tech learning curve on the human side as well as an amplification of stories about the 0.5% most extreme failure conditions by a press core desperate to feature how shitty the technology they are terrified of taking their jobs is.

        There’s some wild stuff most people just haven’t seen.

        • Miaou@jlai.lu
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          5 months ago

          I can just as well say that the screenshot above is the top 0.5% pushed by people trying to sell the tech. I don’t really have an opinion either way tbh, I’m just being cynical. But my own experience with those tools hasn’t been impressive.