Do we have to pull some cyberpunk 2077 type shit and make a new internet? Because it really sounds like it’s becoming a documentary
Ok, it’s official now; captcha are useless. Can we please stop using them now?
No. Humans must suffer.
AI isn’t going to train itself!
I find it funny that there are browser extensions that solve captchas for you. With a bot
With Firefox recently captcha always fails lately. So bots can get by it but I can’t.
Same here. It’s infuriating. It is specifically Cloud Flare CAPTCHA that I have issues with, but Google’s also take longer than it used to. I pretty much always have to select the images containing traffic lights or something, and then you see how bad some of them have gotten.
Check out this addon to auto solve recaptcha: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
I haven’t experienced that. Do you remember a site so I can try it out? Lol
Pandoras box is ripped to shreds…
Well yeah, captcha/recaptcha was never designed to stop bots, but to spy without consent. Let’s not talk about the profit made by using it as unpaid labor to “decode” text and images for other companies. Should have been ditched long time ago.
It’s an accessibility issue too. I have a friend who is both hard of hearing and has visual problems, they can make out zoomed in plaintext but the captchas are just too much for them.
Here’s a crazy idea: make the CAPTCHAs so complicated humans can’t complete them.
That way if someone does, you know they’re a bot.
I should probably patent that or something. (Is joke, etc.)
This very circumstance is described in the book „Qualityland“ and probably many more literature. The book is about a man living in the near (and completely enshitified) future who is confronted by a defunct algorithm that automatically bought him a dolphin dildo. Seeing no way of returning it by normal means - the algorithm is always right and does not accept returns after all - he sets out to right this wrong and discovers the mechanisms and people behind the screens that dictate every aspect of your life.
Sounds straight out of Paranoia RPG. Friend Computer knows what is best for you. To imply that Friend Computer does not have your best intents in its algorithms is treason.
I think I have my next ready thanks!
Choose at random a captcha that a human could complete or one a human couldn’t complete (while the bot supposedly could complete all of them).
I give up on any captcha with mor than 1 image. The problem is you aren’t letting people in, even if you are catching bots. You’ll have to turn it off to let people in.
They usually only do it when you’re on a vpn. So you just have to give up your privacy and disable the vpn to be seen as human.
Generally true, but I had cases where I got multiple captcha without vpn, and not even a single one with VPN enabled…
We can create a simple captcha which most humans can solve, but AI can not with questions like “How many R letters are in Strawberry.
I’ve actually seen a few places (XMPP chatrooms and such) with captcha questions about math put there around year 2009 and still not obsolete against AI bots, I think. But - many humans will fail too.
“Should you put glue in pizza?”
Well, no, because it was designed just to piss all of us off in the past two decades.
CAPTCHA later alligator
In a while bot denial
The underlying issue is that somehow bots have value. Work on that and bypassing captchas will be a hobby again instead of a job.
What does this even mean?
