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so we're at the point where the steps to prove you're human are so arduous only a bot will have the patience to create a new account someone should try using "

so we're at the point where the steps to prove you're human are so arduous only a bot will have the patience to create a new account someone should try using "photograph of yourself, where you hold a piece of paper with the following, handwritten code on it: **" as a prompt on DALL-E/imagen

duskwuff 4y ago
Dall-E and its relatives are still pretty awful at text, at least for now. They have a decent idea of how individual letters are shaped, but trying to produce a specific word or phrase is generally pretty hopeless. Dall-E can sometimes correctly reproduce words that appear frequently in its training data, like "PIZZA", but its success rate on less common words is dismally low, especially when they're appearing out of context. Some pretty convincing examples of this behavior can be seen at: https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1531624303770279937 https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1531624303770279937
- adastra22 4y ago
  Because they haven't been trained on that. Yet.
grishka 4y ago
Modern captchas have gotten really annoying, too. You used to be able to just effortlessly type characters from a distorted image in 5 seconds, but now proving that you're an actual real human is so much work I'm tempted to automate it.
- yakubin 4y ago
  My personal worst experience with captchas is Vultr: every time I go to their page from my Linux desktop, I need to solve a recaptcha. And if I don't do it within ~3 seconds, the page reloads and I need to start over again. I bet there are more robots than humans who can solve it in such a short time. You need to read the instructions, pattern match 9 photos... twice... in 3 seconds. It doesn't happen when I visit the Vultr's page from my iPhone though. When I get a spare moment, I will move my VPS to another, less obnoxious provider (maybe even Amazon).

duskwuff 4y ago

Dall-E and its relatives are still pretty awful at text, at least for now. They have a decent idea of how individual letters are shaped, but trying to produce a specific word or phrase is generally pretty hopeless. Dall-E can sometimes correctly reproduce words that appear frequently in its training data, like "PIZZA", but its success rate on less common words is dismally low, especially when they're appearing out of context. Some pretty convincing examples of this behavior can be seen at: https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1531624303770279937 https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1531624303770279937

adastra22 4y ago
Because they haven't been trained on that. Yet.

grishka 4y ago

Modern captchas have gotten really annoying, too. You used to be able to just effortlessly type characters from a distorted image in 5 seconds, but now proving that you're an actual real human is so much work I'm tempted to automate it.

yakubin 4y ago
My personal worst experience with captchas is Vultr: every time I go to their page from my Linux desktop, I need to solve a recaptcha. And if I don't do it within ~3 seconds, the page reloads and I need to start over again. I bet there are more robots than humans who can solve it in such a short time. You need to read the instructions, pattern match 9 photos... twice... in 3 seconds. It doesn't happen when I visit the Vultr's page from my iPhone though. When I get a spare moment, I will move my VPS to another, less obnoxious provider (maybe even Amazon).