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Yeah, it's really brutal. I find the new recaptchas which I hit almost every time are much more exhausting than the old text-based ones, and probably much easie
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, it's really brutal. I find the new recaptchas which I hit almost every time are much more exhausting than the old text-based ones, and probably much easier for a machine to solve to boot.
- frogpelt 10y ago"probably much easier for a machine to solve to[sic]" Surely, CAPTCHA wasn't replaced with something less dificult for machines to solve. Have you seen research to indicate this?
- inafewwords 10y agoSomeone will train a pigeon to break captchas some day just for fun. In reference to pigeons being trained to diagnose cancer in X-rays.
- problems 10y agoI was meaning to use the idiom "to boot", you cut off a word. Perhaps my grammar wasn't correct there though. In any case, check out the blackhat presentation about using Google's image recognition to solve the image based captchas. There are a wide variety of fairly advanced image recognition tools but a surprisingly small number of complex text recognition ones.
- cbhl 10y agoThe state of the art has improved so much that for the older tasks, computers are arguably better than humans at them: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6082 https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6082 So humans have to clear higher and higher hurdles to prove themselves human while the computers use the answers from the captchas to get closer to humans' capabilities.
- zodPod 10y agoThe worst are the questions like "Click the images with a store front" what the hell is a store front? Especially in today's world.. Is a garage a store front? Is a hot dog stand a store front? Same with like "Click the images with cars" but there's a crossover. Is that a car? Is a station wagon a car?
- problems 10y agoYeah, I think this is a big reason it feels like I'm spending a lot more mental energy to solve these captchas than the old ones.
- Ajedi32 10y agoI've found it's best to just not think about it too much. CAPTCHAs are, after all, designed to "tell Computers and Humans Apart". You're a human, so just pick whatever seems reasonable and move on. If the system doesn't accept your answer, that's _its_ fault, not yours.
- probably_wrong 10y agoI've gotten several times the one asking for "tea", that requires you to select three pictures of coffee[1]. With the store fronts, at least I can read what they say. They are often in Spanish, for one reason. [1] http://m.imgur.com/YdqKUf3?r http://m.imgur.com/YdqKUf3?r
- H4CK3RM4N 10y agoThese are almost certainly just Google training its car AI.