209 points

I’m curious if it could solve the traffic light and crosswalk ones, I would try but I’m out of free image uploads from asking it to explain memes to test its cultural knowledge.

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120 points

Wow, that’s actually quite impressive.

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39 points

I’m sure eventually someone will make a bot called something like ai-explains-the-joke that does this automatically.

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13 points

Expl-AI-n Bot will break down whatever joke you feed it.

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17 points

I wonder how much was scraped from knowyourmeme.com

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32 points

I mean it still parsed the specific text in the meme and formulated a coherent explanation of this specific meme, not just the meme format

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11 points

The majority of people right now are fairly out of touch with the actual capabilities of modern models.

There’s a combination of the tech learning curve on the human side as well as an amplification of stories about the 0.5% most extreme failure conditions by a press core desperate to feature how shitty the technology they are terrified of taking their jobs is.

There’s some wild stuff most people just haven’t seen.

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13 points

I can just as well say that the screenshot above is the top 0.5% pushed by people trying to sell the tech. I don’t really have an opinion either way tbh, I’m just being cynical. But my own experience with those tools hasn’t been impressive.

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5 points

At the risk of sounding like a tech bro who’s desperately trying to secure funding: this truly does feel like a major leap in technology that is going to change the world.

Anytime I hear it dismissed as “basically auto-complete”, I feel like it’s being underestimated.

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26 points

Yes it probably can… CAPTCHAs don’t work based on your answers (many types you can answer wrong and still sometimes pass) - they work by tracking your mouses movements and timing and deciding whether they human-like.

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25 points

Why do i fail the “choose all images with motorcycles” challenges all the time then :c

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9 points

Are you human?

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9 points

Because half of the pictures are mopeds / scooters and God only knows whether those count or not?

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6 points

Are you the same guy who didn’t see me riding my motorcycle and tried to run over me? Because I think maybe you just can’t see motorcycles.

No, that didn’t actually happen. I just wanted to give this person a hard time.

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5 points

I dunno. Why aren’t you helping the tortoise?

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2 points

I figured it’s due to using a vpn or ad blocker or something

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20 points

a fellow SolidWorks victim

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4 points

Wow, it did a great job at it !

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2 points

Did you find that meme online, or did you create it yourself?

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2 points

I don’t remember actually but I checked the file metadata and I have the template in my downloads folder next to this which has an exif tag of 2 minutes later with gimp metadata so I’m pretty sure I must have made it, which makes it a bit more impressive since I probably just sent it to friends privately and didn’t post it anywhere it could have been scraped for training.

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131 points

Captchas te not meant to deter all bots. It’s meant to make it ever so slightly expensive that a mass DDOS attack would be extremely expensive to perform. Think like thousand sof requests per second, all being Captcha’d and how much it costs to run AI. It’s current not a feasible solution.

There is cheaper AI that can solve Captchas though, and it’s only gonna get cheaper.

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31 points

It’s long been cheap enough that you can pay a call center full of people in a developing country to solve them for you. Going to be a while before AI is cheaper than that.

Having used them to protect a few web sites from spammers filling up forms, they do cut down on the bullshit. This makes things more convenient for the people reading the information coming in from those forms, but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth the cost of everyone else having to pick out the bicycles in the picture.

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6 points

They can’t solve them a million times per minute though.

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Also, captchas are meant to gather data to train on. That’s why we used to have pictures of writing, but that’s basically solved now. It’s why we now have a lot of self driving vehicle focused ones now, like identifying busses, bikes, traffic lights/signs, and that sort of thing.

Captchas get humans to label data so the ML algorithms can train on it, eventually being able to identify the tests themselves.

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5 points

Now it’s making me identify developed pictures from a photo negative. I’m not quite sure what they’re going to do with that training since computers can already perform that task.

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3 points

Also the “select the image below containing the example image above.”

Like… we already have computers that can recognize image repetitions.

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2 points

A common OCR tactic is to turn the image negative and bump the contrast to make text easier to recognize.

It could be a precursor for that step.

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I believe this is why Google, and a few other companies, have started using behavioral analysis to figure out if you are human. Did your mouse wonder around the page before clicking to verify? Did you come from another website as if browsing the web? What device are you using and have you used it on this site before? Are you logged into an account? I’m sure they use many more factors, but it’s something that would be hard to replicate with bot behavior on a consistent basis (for now).

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6 points

Apple and Cloudflare are using “Private Access Tokens

Some negative implications for the open web I believe

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1 point

Basically yeah, but that has been the case since almost the start of recaptcha. Fingerprinting just got so good to the point that the visual test was not even needed anymore.

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52 points

Case doesn’t matter

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139 points

You mean to tell me I’ve been painstakingly pressing the shift key during captcha tests for YEARS and it doesn’t actually matter?

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Listen to the audio, it never specifies case.

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19 points

Usually, it doesn’t.

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23 points

Not most of the time anyway, I’ve seen a captcha from time to time that was case sensitive, but they’re uncommon for sure

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5 points

Depends on the case.

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2 points

There may be some exceptions, but not usually.

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5 points

Sometimes it does. It just depends on the programming.

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8 points

Unix gang

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77 points

I have an extension which solves most Captchas for me It does it better than me which is why I use it

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48 points

You can’t drop information like that without posting links.

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I’m was bracing for the Rick roll 😅 Thanks for the real link

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6 points

My dog wants a link too.

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4 points

Can I pet that dog?

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3 points

I got that dog in me

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6 points

Well what is it man???

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6 points

Buster Captcha Solver for humans

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5 points

If we are at the point where consumer grade plug is are better at these than humans, is the only reason these are still being used to give some slice of the population a false sense of security? Is it actually the users that want these?

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It does still increase the cost of automating usage of those sites, which puts an upper limit to how they can be abused. We probably won’t be able to go back to no Captcha without seeing a large increase of spam, spoofing, scalping, and scraping. They would have to give up offering most kinds of free trials and other consumer friendly practices if the bots can just make new accounts at 1000 per second.

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58 points

pretty sure it’s actually “p” not “P”

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most of those aren’t case sensitive anyway

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18 points

They’re not!?

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Yeah I often got tripped up when there are caps but the input should forced to all lower but isn’t. (This was a longstanding bug in reCapcha)

Ps: I’m totally not an AI or anything. Definitely a real person

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Based on the serif of the font I’d go with P as the ai says

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based off the font i’d say “p”; but also mainly because the tail goes below the bottom of the other letters even after accounting for the distortion

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