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You are all laughing, but I was just presented with an impossible captcha trying to login into my OpenAI account, that I pay $20/month for. To solve the captcha

You are all laughing, but I was just presented with an impossible captcha trying to login into my OpenAI account, that I pay $20/month for. To solve the captcha, I need to click the puzzle 80 (!) times, and if I make a mistake, I should start everything anew. That's totally not funny. Had to cancel the subscription. Anyway, Phind is faster and better quality.

dave1010uk 3y ago
What OS and browser are you using? Give me a couple of minutes and I'll get ChatGPT to write aa script that does it for you.
- gryn 3y ago
  I don't know if you're being satiric about it but I found your reply hilarious. maybe the captcha was made with chatGPT to begin with. AIs creating jobs for AIs to keep (server) employment at 100%
  - switchbak 3y ago
    And that's the real reason we need fusion power. To power all the incredibly dumb shit that we layer on top of other layers of dumb. If only we had an AI that could clean all of that up for us. Sadly, I'm only half joking. I need a beer.
    - blt 3y ago
      There is no training data ;)
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
  Then they will brick my Windows laptop and throw me in jail for Illegal Captcha Circumvention and Resisting Verification!
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    Oh, you got the ICCRV popup? Don't worry - this usually means you forgot to drink the verification can. So drink the verification can, and then refresh the page, in this order.
mensetmanusman 3y ago
If you have multiple services that are suspicious of your CC transactions, someone might be trying to rob you.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
  Nope, CC is not in question this time. Captcha is before the password. Wonder if there is a youtube video somewhere We Made That sucker Solve 80-click Captcha!
boneitis 3y ago
This was my first thought. Commenters here are thoroughly entertained, but all I see are the efforts of people that mold the internet experience into what I have to deal with on a daily basis. They would make great additions to AI and CAPTCHA teams. /snark It's pretty wild that my $20 subscription earns me a long string of puzzles. Sometimes I am forced to solve so many of the very-difficult-to-solve variety that I just give up and hope that, on another day, they only give me a couple. I subscribed in the hopes that the utility of it would be immediate and without the SEO cesspool, but ultimately, I'm still losing that time (and paying for the privilege of) providing free labor for model training.
- Wissenschafter 3y ago
  I've had GPT pro since it was first available and have not once had to do a CAPTCHA to use it, first time I'm hearing about this actually.
  - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
    Congrats, you are a good person with high social rating, keep at it!
    - pixl97 3y ago
      I mean, probably true... or at least a person with a high IP address rating. This said, these types of gates exist everywhere online and off. Live in a nice neighborhood and you can go pick up your own Tide detergent right off the shelf. Live near a 'bad' (high theft) neighborhood and you'll ask a staff member to go unlock it for you before you can take it off the shelf. Even things with paid memberships like Sams club I've went to stores that check you match up with the membership ID you're bringing in. OP doesn't have to give them business, but grabbing his pearls and acting shocked is also the appearance of someone that has not have to live around any kind of economically depressed area at all.
  - capableweb 3y ago
    It's country dependent. When I've been around in Europe, I barely see it. As soon as I go to South America, captchas everywhere.
dalmo3 3y ago
I'm also cancelling my Proton VPN subscription after being captcha-ed for minutes IN THE DESKTOP APP.
- protonmail 3y ago
  This doesn't sound right at all. Could you please report this to us at: https://protonvpn.com/support-form https://protonvpn.com/support-form, so we can take a closer look?
fmx 3y ago
Yeah, as hilarious as this is when it happens to a bad guy the really sad aspect of it, for me, is that their customer service experience is not so abnormal. If it were, most would immediately identify it as fake. Like, counting the numbers of nuts in a photo is a bit much, but we are so used to horrible CAPTHAs now that it's just plausible. Same with the phone menu, etc.
alpaca128 3y ago
They didn't even give me the chance to really try it. Less than 10 prompts over half a week and every response is "we have detected suspicious activity on your system, try again later". Doesn't seem to be a rare problem, subscription or not.
- HansHamster 3y ago
  Reminds me of my experience with GCP... "here are 300 bucks of credit so you can try out absolutely nothing interesting because we set all relevant quotas to 0. Good luck trying to get any support, but if you really want, you can try to contact our business sales teams for very serious businesses that will just ignore you"
  - S201 3y ago
    The zero API quota on GCP hits close to home for me too. Last year I wanted to write a little script that would use the YouTube API to find video URLs from a particular channel. The details on it aren't important; it was something I would only use locally for personal purposes and did a single API call per day. After wondering why it kept returning a 401 I finally figured out that the API quota was set to zero out of the box and that I had to fill out some form with a bunch of ridiculous questions like "what will be the impact to your business if your quota is not increased?" Uh, I won't be able to use the API at all because it's currently zero? The end result was that it took about two weeks of back and forth with Google Support trying to make them understand what I was using the API for before they finally relented and increased the API quota to a non-zero value. I get that Google is probably somewhat protective of the YouTube API and I'm just some Joe Blow looking to query it for non-revenue purposes, but if I were a business it would have been an insanely terrible experience to get set up with a third-party API. Compared to every quota increase request on AWS which is either self-serve or something a support ticket handles in a few hours typically.
    - HansHamster 3y ago
      For me it was the GPU quota, but the form was probably the same and assuming that I am running a business so I should provide the name and a link to the homepage or something like that? In the end I never received a reply and gave up after a while. Needless to say, I will not give them any of my money because they clearly do not want it... A friend did the same to play around with the larger Nvidia GPUs and never ran into any issues, but my almost 20 years old google account is not good enough?
015a 3y ago
I cancelled my ChatGPT+ subscription only because of their sign-in and captcha hell.
- qup 3y ago
  I keep signing in (to use the API) and it says my credentials expired. On my first login, immediately. Deleting cookies doesn't change anything. I sometimes get through and haven't figured out what's different.

dave1010uk 3y ago

What OS and browser are you using? Give me a couple of minutes and I'll get ChatGPT to write aa script that does it for you.

gryn 3y ago
I don't know if you're being satiric about it but I found your reply hilarious. maybe the captcha was made with chatGPT to begin with. AIs creating jobs for AIs to keep (server) employment at 100%
- switchbak 3y ago
  And that's the real reason we need fusion power. To power all the incredibly dumb shit that we layer on top of other layers of dumb. If only we had an AI that could clean all of that up for us. Sadly, I'm only half joking. I need a beer.
  - blt 3y ago
    There is no training data ;)
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
Then they will brick my Windows laptop and throw me in jail for Illegal Captcha Circumvention and Resisting Verification!
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Oh, you got the ICCRV popup? Don't worry - this usually means you forgot to drink the verification can. So drink the verification can, and then refresh the page, in this order.

mensetmanusman 3y ago

If you have multiple services that are suspicious of your CC transactions, someone might be trying to rob you.

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
Nope, CC is not in question this time. Captcha is before the password. Wonder if there is a youtube video somewhere We Made That sucker Solve 80-click Captcha!

boneitis 3y ago

This was my first thought. Commenters here are thoroughly entertained, but all I see are the efforts of people that mold the internet experience into what I have to deal with on a daily basis. They would make great additions to AI and CAPTCHA teams. /snark It's pretty wild that my $20 subscription earns me a long string of puzzles. Sometimes I am forced to solve so many of the very-difficult-to-solve variety that I just give up and hope that, on another day, they only give me a couple. I subscribed in the hopes that the utility of it would be immediate and without the SEO cesspool, but ultimately, I'm still losing that time (and paying for the privilege of) providing free labor for model training.

Wissenschafter 3y ago
I've had GPT pro since it was first available and have not once had to do a CAPTCHA to use it, first time I'm hearing about this actually.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
  Congrats, you are a good person with high social rating, keep at it!
  - pixl97 3y ago
    I mean, probably true... or at least a person with a high IP address rating. This said, these types of gates exist everywhere online and off. Live in a nice neighborhood and you can go pick up your own Tide detergent right off the shelf. Live near a 'bad' (high theft) neighborhood and you'll ask a staff member to go unlock it for you before you can take it off the shelf. Even things with paid memberships like Sams club I've went to stores that check you match up with the membership ID you're bringing in. OP doesn't have to give them business, but grabbing his pearls and acting shocked is also the appearance of someone that has not have to live around any kind of economically depressed area at all.
- capableweb 3y ago
  It's country dependent. When I've been around in Europe, I barely see it. As soon as I go to South America, captchas everywhere.

dalmo3 3y ago

I'm also cancelling my Proton VPN subscription after being captcha-ed for minutes IN THE DESKTOP APP.

protonmail 3y ago
This doesn't sound right at all. Could you please report this to us at: https://protonvpn.com/support-form https://protonvpn.com/support-form, so we can take a closer look?

fmx 3y ago

Yeah, as hilarious as this is when it happens to a bad guy the really sad aspect of it, for me, is that their customer service experience is not so abnormal. If it were, most would immediately identify it as fake. Like, counting the numbers of nuts in a photo is a bit much, but we are so used to horrible CAPTHAs now that it's just plausible. Same with the phone menu, etc.

alpaca128 3y ago

They didn't even give me the chance to really try it. Less than 10 prompts over half a week and every response is "we have detected suspicious activity on your system, try again later". Doesn't seem to be a rare problem, subscription or not.

HansHamster 3y ago
Reminds me of my experience with GCP... "here are 300 bucks of credit so you can try out absolutely nothing interesting because we set all relevant quotas to 0. Good luck trying to get any support, but if you really want, you can try to contact our business sales teams for very serious businesses that will just ignore you"
- S201 3y ago
  The zero API quota on GCP hits close to home for me too. Last year I wanted to write a little script that would use the YouTube API to find video URLs from a particular channel. The details on it aren't important; it was something I would only use locally for personal purposes and did a single API call per day. After wondering why it kept returning a 401 I finally figured out that the API quota was set to zero out of the box and that I had to fill out some form with a bunch of ridiculous questions like "what will be the impact to your business if your quota is not increased?" Uh, I won't be able to use the API at all because it's currently zero? The end result was that it took about two weeks of back and forth with Google Support trying to make them understand what I was using the API for before they finally relented and increased the API quota to a non-zero value. I get that Google is probably somewhat protective of the YouTube API and I'm just some Joe Blow looking to query it for non-revenue purposes, but if I were a business it would have been an insanely terrible experience to get set up with a third-party API. Compared to every quota increase request on AWS which is either self-serve or something a support ticket handles in a few hours typically.
  - HansHamster 3y ago
    For me it was the GPU quota, but the form was probably the same and assuming that I am running a business so I should provide the name and a link to the homepage or something like that? In the end I never received a reply and gave up after a while. Needless to say, I will not give them any of my money because they clearly do not want it... A friend did the same to play around with the larger Nvidia GPUs and never ran into any issues, but my almost 20 years old google account is not good enough?

015a 3y ago

I cancelled my ChatGPT+ subscription only because of their sign-in and captcha hell.

qup 3y ago
I keep signing in (to use the API) and it says my credentials expired. On my first login, immediately. Deleting cookies doesn't change anything. I sometimes get through and haven't figured out what's different.