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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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I was fine with it when it was wavy text to digitise old works. This shit is just asinine and a time sink.
Yeah... only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them.
20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a [Penny Black project](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black_(research_project%29), which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that... maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.
Proof of work. See mCaptcha and Friendly Captcha.