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I can see a future where the Internet is completely run by bots and AI to the point where no human actually uses the Internet anymore.
It's like an island that gets overrun with rats - there are just too many to deal with so you leave.
I'm already doing that now. If Lemmy starts showing signs of fuckery I'm out. I'll switch back to magazines.
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Cool, so can Google shut it down now?
Buster is awesome to get past recaptcha. I use it with my own Speech to Text API key since its free from Google. Using Google to beat Google.
It's so funny that this exists. I'm going to check it out!!
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And yet I can't beat the CAPTCHAs because reCAPTCHA doesn't like VPNs lol
Captcha these days isn't even really a CAPTCHA in the traditional sense since most of the work it does is based on filtering of IP and browser fingerprinting, with a certain level of gamification because the goal is not just to keep out the people they fight against, but to waste their time, would work great if it didn't waste normal people's time, while real bad actors have easy ways to get around it.
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Well yeah, I'd hope so, that's the entire point.
Catcha's data collection always was with the intent for training ai on these skills. That's "the point" of them.
It's reasonable to expect that the older version of captchas can now be beaten by modern ai, because they're often literally trained on that exact data to beat it.
Captcha effectively is free to use on websites as a tool because the data collection is the "payment", they then license that data out to people like OpenAI to train with for stuff like image recognition.
It's why ai is progressing so fast, captchas are one of humanity's long term collected data silos that are very full now.
We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.
We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.
I wanted to use 4chan alot before I came here, but FUCK that slider capcha. I bailed after the first time I didn't pass.
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Yeah, my understanding is that these capchas were made to harvest data to use for AI/Autopilot driven cars. That's why they are always having you identify motorcycles, bycicles, crosswalks, stoplights, busses, etc. It's all stuff that automatic driving cars have had a hard time identifying.
When it's asking for motorcycles but it's clearly a scooter
That tip of a handle bar that makes you wonder if that square counts or not.
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I had one with one of those Motorcycles with the long handles, apparently they aren't part of the bike, but the dudes foot holding it up is.
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Or, like, "there's the bottom 10% of a traffic light in this one. Do I click that box? Ia that supposed to count?"
What they are doing is comparing your answer and seeing if it is consistent with how it has been answered previously. They realize that not everyone is going to give the exact same answer, so as long as you answer it in a way that enough other people have answered it, it should let you in.
I'll usually go with the minimum number of clicks that I think will get me through, since I'm lazy and it'll also at times slow down how fast you can click which is annoying.
I'll also answer them wrong if I think it's a mistake that enough other people will make. "Yes... that RV over there is a bus..."
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Does the backside of a traffic light even count? What about these strange traffic lights that have more boarder than light?
How about "do they want just the bulbs or the pole holding it up?"
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I never get the first one and rarely the second one. If it says to click all the squares with motorcycles and it’s just the one big picture, am I supposed to click stuff like the tire and mirrors? I always do and never get it right. Then most of the time they ask me to identify motorcycles, they show me motor scooters and what am I supposed to do then? I think I just need to get one of these bots to do it for me.
Fwiw they aren't really asking about the motorcycle. I mean they are but they are washing your mouse movements and how fast you click through the images. It's okay to get a few images wrong.
Not quite.
It's mostly wisdom of the crowd, as it always has been.
As long as you mostly click the same squares most other people click, you pass.
You often at random get 2-3 images because 2 of them are actual checks, but the third is a new image that you auto pass and they're using it to gather data on what the average clicks are on it.
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My score is lower.
Unless this was something people could use i dont rly see it becoming much of a problem. Most people dont even use adblockers
Ai is ruining the internet.
Corporations have already done it years ago
Thank God this means i can stop wondering if i should click on the... the 13 pixels from the fucking bike in that one corner square or wondering if i should count the scooter as a motorcycle fuck i am so tired of that shit
Complete the obligatory "is this a staircase or street crossing" round only to be roundhouse kicked back to the beginning.
I mean, we literally train them by completing the CAPTCHAs. Why do you think you were picking things like bikes, traffic lights, cars, and busses? The only question now is what's next...
they embed dark souls into the browser
In order to pay your utility bill, you have to beat the Undertale Sans fight in Genocide mode
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Great, so now can I get an add-on to my browser that skips these?
In use an add-on that does 90% of these for me already on Firefox. I would tell you what it's called but I'm not at my PC.
Which (on a side note) I'd totally go downstairs and check for you, but I just sprained my ankle real bad, and am dreading stairs. Sorry :(
Sorry to hear about your ankle. When you're able to, I'd also like to know what the add-on is
As someone who can not decide if 3 pixels of a motorcycle counts as a correct square, I need this add on.