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Captchas getting harder or am I just getting blind (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Geist_@lemmy.world to c/meta@lemmy.ml
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Tried to make on new account on lemmy... It did work in the end (obviously). Good thing there is the audio version to read it for me. (sarcasm, I know it's supposed to be for accessibility purposes. Still used it though)

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[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I think the CAPTCHAs have to keep getting harder and harder because the bots keep getting better and better.

[-] nxfsi@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

>make captcha to train bots with human feedback

>bots become not only better, but more humanlike at solving captcha

No one could have possibly predicted this at all.

[-] OrgunDonor@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It is already a lost race though.

For instance, when humans were asked to solve distorted text CAPTCHAs, they were able to solve them in 9 to 15 seconds. That sounds great until you learn that they were only able to get the answer correctly 50-84% of the time.

On the other hand, bots taking the same texts were able to answer the same tests in less than a second, and they were able to do it more accurately—99.8% accurately, specifically.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/bots-better-at-solving-captchas-than-humans

[-] Geist_@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

welp

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

google's captcha basically doesn't even use the actual puzzle anymore. That's only used to train their AI. Its based mostly on how you interact with site.

[-] Geist_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

hmm yeah but at what point do we stop? If I already can't solve it without using the audio description or refreshing multiple times, I think we need to think about another solution. Or just make it less hard, if "stopping the bots" is not the only reason.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 2 points 11 months ago

They've already determined that bots are better at solving Captchas than we are.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

More security theater is the obvious solution!

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