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For a long time now CAPTCHAs only make bots more expensive. There are plenty of (human-staffed) services that will solve your captchas for $0.001-$0.005 per sol
by wongarsu 3y ago
For a long time now CAPTCHAs only make bots more expensive. There are plenty of (human-staffed) services that will solve your captchas for $0.001-$0.005 per solved captcha. Better AI lowers the cost, but it's not necessarily a massive change of the status quo.
- RetroTechie 3y agoIn a way that is silly: Increase the cost of having bots do it, while... ...also increasing the time wasted by humans. Time which is considered much more costly/valuable than whatever $ value spent on the bots. So maybe the time has come to regard captcha's pointless, and just drop that nonsense.
- semi 3y agoThat was true of early captchas but Google changed it from 'wasting humans time' to 'using humans time to train their machine learning algorirhms'
- mistrial9 3y agoabout to say the same - but to be clear, it is "training computer vision models" a specific use of machine learning
- PBnFlash 3y agoThe difference between zero and nearly zero can be pretty large at scale.
- vGPU 3y agoI would legitimately pay for this. I hate doing captchas and the internet seems to hate Firefox.