I saw that and just sat there for a second like… huh. We’ve officially reached the point where bots are better at proving they’re not bots!
I saw that and just sat there for a second like… huh. We’ve officially reached the point where bots are better at proving they’re not bots!
CAPTCHA was always a totally flawed concept. At the time they were invented, proponents were more then happy to ignore that accessibility issues related to CAPTCHA made the concept itself deeply discriminating. Imagine being blind (like I am) and failing to solve a CAPTCHA. Knowing what the acronym actually stands for, you inevitably end up thinking: "So, did SV just proof I am subhuman?" Its a bit inflamatory to read I guess, but please take your time to ponder how deep this one actually goes, before you downvote. You were proposing to tell computers and humans apart.
That said, I find it deeply satisfying to see LLMs solve CAPTCHAs and other discriminatory measures for "spam" reduction.
"Accessibility CAPTCHA" is a well known partial CAPTCHA bypass.
Solving an audio-only CAPTCHA with AI is typically way easier than solving some of the more advanced visual challenges. So CAPTCHA designers are discouraged from leaving any accessibility options.
Which totally proofs my point. The concept is deeply flawed, and inevitably leads to discrimination and dehumanisation.
Of course. But everything adjacent is also deeply flawed, and inevitably leads to discrimination and dehumanisation.
Ban non-residental IPs? You blocked all the guys in oppressive countries who route through VPNs to bypass government censorship. Ban people for odd non-humanlike behavior? You cut into the neurodivergent crowd, the disability crowd, the third world people on a cracked screen smartphone with 1 bar of LTE. Ban anyone without an account? You fuck with everyone at once and everyone will hate you.
So fuucking over blind, elderly and mentally challenged people is what you settled on, gven all the options? You're a really neat bunch.
Nah, we settled on "all of the above". The modern approach is "fuck over everyone at least twice".