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The general idea of a captcha is valid and sound, but it's a problem if captchas turn into crowdsourced labor for Google's neural net. First it was reading hous
by cm3 10y ago
The general idea of a captcha is valid and sound, but it's a problem if captchas turn into crowdsourced labor for Google's neural net. First it was reading house numbers, which was easy and not that time intensive, thus acceptable, but the new captchas are a time sink and hard to accept.
- jrockway 10y agoIt takes time to solve a captcha regardless of whether or not it's going to /dev/null or into some neural network. (My second paragraph was actually directed at a reply to your comment.)
- cm3 10y ago> It takes time to solve a captcha regardless of whether or not it's going to /dev/null or into some neural network. Yes, and if Google's captcha didn't get much harder, I wouldn't mention it. At least they stopped showing impossible to read random words. They had one variant which I never once passed and had to reload until I got something with distinctive letters.
- creshal 10y agoIt's definitely getting worse. Last week I had to give up on trying to file a warranty claim for a WD hdd, because their warranty portal stuck me in a "select all images showing X" captcha loop for 45 minutes.