Dead internet shall become undead.
I’m just saying, but captcha had a purpose. It still kind of does. Whether solved by a person or by an AI.
I’m pretty sure that for a good while there it was using captcha to help its text recognition more accurately determine what words were from scans of books that were imported en masse to Google books as images of pages. We’re talking about books published before computers were used to write them. The text recognition algorithm had an idea of what the letters should be, but didn’t have a high enough confidence in the result, so it was sent through captcha to get a consensus from humans.
The humans answering the captcha would just verify whether it was one of a small list of possible matches, and in doing so, train the machine vision algorithm to better detect the letter in the future.
That’s what I heard at least. IDK. I just live here (on the internet).
Some disabled people have trouble with captchas, so these days you can download an extension where a robot solves the captcha for you.
I have trouble with the selecting the squares on the grid, for images that say select only crosswalks, bikes, etc. I hate that captcha. Is there a decent extension for firefox?
Buster can do reCAPTCHA: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
It got it wrong. That’s a lowercase “p.”
Yeah captchas are done. Soon they will be easier to figure out for AI than for humans.
This is why Sam Altman is doing his worldcoin thingy with the iris scanners. His idea: One iris (well, two…) is one real human. I’m sure this will be abused though and I absolutely vehemently don’t trust him with my biometrics so no way I will join that.
I think what we should do is just get used to the fact that the internet now consists of humans and AIs. Learn to take things with a grain of salt.
Techno core!
I certainly don’t wanna get Demolition Man’d
I’d honestly rather pay microtransactions for various websites than use biometrics ever.
There’s a lot of misunderstanding in this thread about how captchas work.
What modern captchas examine isn’t actually your ability to solve the puzzle… It’s how you solve it. Things like mouse movements and how you type are big factors. So a bot would process for a moment, and then basically copy and paste in the answer, whereas as a human is going to type at a normal pace, often with pauses as they double check the details. Same goes for the click the tiles challenges. A bot will work through systematically, a human will bounce around, and their timings will be very different.
Captchas have largely been solvable by machines at a rate higher than humans for a long, long time.
It is very easy to train a model to behave like humans do by simply having a sample of human inputs.
Here is an article from august 2023 covering how much better machines are than humans at accomplishing captchas of many flavors. Sauce
pretty sure it’s actually “p” not “P”
Based on the serif of the font I’d go with P as the ai says
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
most of those aren’t case sensitive anyway
They’re not!?
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
Oh recaptcha, that was an interesting time.
I wonder how that works on a Japanese captcha. I know people have had issues shortly after moving but not knowing the language at all yet trying to set some things up.
With my troubles even with English ones they’d better just give me a knife.
We are happy to provide your knife, but first please prove that you are human by completing the incantation as written…
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Unix gang
Case doesn’t matter
You mean to tell me I’ve been painstakingly pressing the shift key during captcha tests for YEARS and it doesn’t actually matter?
Usually, it doesn’t.
Listen to the audio, it never specifies case.
I ALWAYS do the audio captcha. Fuck image clicking.
Ironically Lemmy captcha does
Wow, good catch!
*good captcha
so close…
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There may be some exceptions, but not usually.
Depends on the case.
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
It used to be that they paired a known word with an unknown word, and if you got the known word right you would pass no matter what you wrote for the unknown one.
I remember reading that somewhere (probably 4chan) figured out a somewhat high accuracy way to tell which was the control and which was the variable, and started spam solving them by correctly doing the assumed control but putting the same thing (knowing 4chan, probably a slur) for the assumed variable until the system got enough confirmation to move the word to the control rotation and started accepting the word for that. Can’t remember where so it may be unconfirmed
Unfortunately I was hooked on 4chan around the time. They called it “n… the captcha”.
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Sometimes it does. It just depends on the programming.
I have an extension which solves most Captchas for me It does it better than me which is why I use it
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?
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.
Well what is it man???
Buster Captcha Solver for humans
You can’t drop information like that without posting links.
My dog wants a link too.
I got that dog in me
Can I pet that dog?
I’m was bracing for the Rick roll 😅 Thanks for the real link
I seem to recall OpenAI saying they guarded against captcha solving…
The “puzzle” isn’t the test, the test uses your browser history, mouse activity, etc to identify you as human (or not). The puzzle is used to generate training data for ML models.
Sure with a modern captcha framework that would be true. In this case, this looks like something that was custom rolled for their site so its pretty unlikely.
Oh, true, I didn’t look too close.
Lol, well maybe not your browser history. That would be bad.
So close
Computers have long since been able to defeat such captchas.
it’s the recaptchas that they should have trouble with. since it’s not just about finding the right picture, it’s also about the time between clicks, the way the mouse moves, etc.
reCaptcha never works for me. Probably something with thirdpartyisolation.enabled. Can’t snoop all the history and stuff.
They probably have some kind of randomizer for that nowadays.
It’s pretty simple to make. I built one for my last job to make it look like I was working.
but us humans aren’t truly random, we probably behave in similar ways to each other, but also have individual ‘fingerprints’. like the time it takes between keystrokes, or the length of time we spend holding the button on the mouse down while clicking. we could probably come up with a way of identifying someone based only on that kind of data. what was i talking about?
Not without enough context to know what time of day, if the person is ill, or a ton of other things that would make someone respond differently at different points in time.
The anti bot stuff is going to be looking for too much consistency, which is hard look for on its own before trying to look for some kind of ‘fingerprint’
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Yeah, and a couple of people I know who were consistently reported to be robots because they’ve been shown captcha too much and as a result solved it too well. Which in turn led to more captcha and improved solving speed. Well, you see the problem, I guess
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.
Wow, that’s actually quite impressive.
I wonder how much was scraped from knowyourmeme.com
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
Or it matched the text with an existing explanation upon which it was indexed.
Lmao you think it found a specific explanation for this specific variation of this meme?
For each phrase, yes.
That’s not how GPTs work
That’s literally how they work
Man the models can’t store verbatim its training data, the amount of data is turned into a model that is hundreds or thousands of times smaller than the original source data. If it was capable of simply recovering everything that it was trained on this would be some magical compression algorithm and that by itself would be extremely impressive.
They do not store anything verbatim; They instead store the directions in which various words and related concepts relate to one another in some gigantic multidimensional space.
I highly suggest you go learn what they actually do before you continue talking out of your ass about them
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.
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.
It’s not just underestimation, it’s outright misinformation.
There’s so much research by this point over the past 18 months that there’s an incredible amount going on beyond “it’s just a Markov chain, bro.”
It was never a Markov chain as that ignored the self-attention mechanism which violated the Markov property. It was just some people trying to explain it used a simplified description which went viral.
Sometimes talking to people who think it’s crap feels like talking to antivaxxers. The feelings matter more than the research and evidence.
Its kind of funny because autocomplete on phones is definitely moving in the direction of using LLMs. Its like it wasn’t true when people started saying it, but it will be literally true in a couple of years at most.
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.
At a pretrained layer, the model is literally a combination of a normal distribution curve of capabilities.
It can autocomplete a flat earther as much as a Nobel physicist given sufficient context.
So it makes sense that even after the fine tuning efforts there’d be a distribution in people’s experiences with the tools.
But just as the average person’s output from Photoshop isn’t going to be very impressive, if all you ever really see is bad Photoshops and average use, you might think it’s a crappy tool.
There’s a learning curve to the model usage, and even in just a year of research the difference between capabilities of the exact same model from then to now is drastically different, based only on learnings around better usage.
The problem is the base models are improving so quickly the best practices for the old generation of models goes out the window with the new. So even if there were classes available I wouldn’t bother pointing you to them as you’d just be picking up info obsolete by the time the classes finished or shortly thereafter.
I’d just strongly caution against betting against the tech’s continued capabilities and improvements if you don’t want to be surprised and haven’t taken the time to look into them operating at their best.
The OP post is pretty crap compared to the top 0.5% usage.
It really does depend on what you ask and how, I can get some really nice music recommendations from Chatgpt but it also cannot comprehend GURPS skill rules, it’s actually funny how it manages to get it wrong a completely different way each time
I’m sure eventually someone will make a bot called something like ai-explains-the-joke that does this automatically.
Expl-AI-n Bot will break down whatever joke you feed it.
Expl-AI-n itself is a pun. With the letters AI in the word explain capitalized, readers can infer that artificial intelligence is being used to explain jokes.
a fellow SolidWorks victim
Did you find that meme online, or did you create it yourself?
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.
Wow, it did a great job at it !
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.
I figured it’s due to using a vpn or ad blocker or something
Why do i fail the “choose all images with motorcycles” challenges all the time then :c
I dunno. Why aren’t you helping the tortoise?
Are you human?
laughs nervously
Laughs electronically
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.
Because half of the pictures are mopeds / scooters and God only knows whether those count or not?
Do handlebars count?
I’m stubborn. I refuse to give the machine the answer I know it wants. And no, that overpass is not a bridge. Usually there is an option to skip or verify another way, This is when the captcha drops the ruse and it’s clear that the machine was just analyzing my mouse movements and response timings anyway to verify that I was behaving randomly in a human way. Still a better game than any of those in YouTube ads.
