Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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I've been saying this and people keep arguing.

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[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 35 points 3 months ago

This seems like the critical part to me:

The paper, released in November 2023, notes that even back in 2016 researchers were able to defeat reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges 70 percent of the time. The reCAPTCHA v2 checkbox challenge is even more vulnerable – the researchers claim it can be defeated 100 percent of the time.

reCAPTCHA v3 has fared no better. In 2019, researchers devised a reinforcement learning attack that breaks reCAPTCHAv3's behavior-based challenges 97 percent of the time.

So it isn't even effective at deterring bots? Then what the hell was all this for?

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 33 points 3 months ago

For getting free labor, of course.

[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago

We are basically training their models/bots for them.

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