Captchas getting harder or am I just getting blind - eviltoast

Tried to make on new account on lemmy… It did work in the end (obviously). Good thing there is the audio version to read it for me. (sarcasm, I know it’s supposed to be for accessibility purposes. Still used it though)

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 year ago

    I think the CAPTCHAs have to keep getting harder and harder because the bots keep getting better and better.

    • nxfsi@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      >make captcha to train bots with human feedback

      >bots become not only better, but more humanlike at solving captcha

      No one could have possibly predicted this at all.

    • OrgunDonor@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      It is already a lost race though.

      For instance, when humans were asked to solve distorted text CAPTCHAs, they were able to solve them in 9 to 15 seconds. That sounds great until you learn that they were only able to get the answer correctly 50-84% of the time.

      On the other hand, bots taking the same texts were able to answer the same tests in less than a second, and they were able to do it more accurately—99.8% accurately, specifically.

      https://www.pcmag.com/news/bots-better-at-solving-captchas-than-humans

    • Geist_@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      hmm yeah but at what point do we stop? If I already can’t solve it without using the audio description or refreshing multiple times, I think we need to think about another solution. Or just make it less hard, if “stopping the bots” is not the only reason.