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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 84 points 1 year ago

CAPTCHAs have been broken for quite a while now.

Google’s reCAPTCHA in particular is terrible and I fail it about half the time trying to guess what it thinks counts as part of a bicycle or not.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

I always found it kind of ironic that the tool used to prevent robot traffic, CAPTCHA, is also used as a data source train robots.

I don't want you getting through this lock, so I'm going to sit you down and meticulously teach you how to get through this lock...

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's even more ironic is that we basically don't need human data anymore to create AI that classify objects or detect their boundaries. With algorithms like DINO we don't even need labeled data at all, you just throw images at it and it learns on its own.

Google spent all this time collecting data through CAPTCHAs to train AI and now it might as well be obsolete.

[-] ugjka@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They are broken because AI is better at solving these capthcas than humans. They are only stopping those spammers who can't afford a gpu to break these catchas

[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Have you de-Googled or something? They only really nail you when you don't have a signed-in Google account with real-world web usage, particularly if your connection originates from a flagged IP.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, how dare I visit a website without letting Google track me. Better block the user with a fake test in the name of security.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Some VPNs will definitely trigger reCaptcha, even if signed on to Google. I just have to hop over to another IP and suddenly everything is fine again.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I've noticed I get the stupid recaptha way more since I swapped to Firefox. Even though I'm logged in to a Google account.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I get it a lot when I'm using our work VPN (which shows up as an AWS IP address). I guess if you're using a VPN or a less reputable ISP you'll probably get stung more often.

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