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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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My tin foil hat tells me that these captcha tests were never about preventing actual bots, but rather they were intentionally put in place for google / whoeverelse to get free training on their image recognition software ai.
You're describing reCaptcha and it's not a secret. It was used to digitize books and improve existing text recognition technology.
There's a TEDx talk from one of the creators from 2011 when they were still widely used.
It’s not tinfoil at all.
"To log in, click the stop signs in this image. Please be quick, as our self-driving car is approaching the junction!"
https://xkcd.com/1897/
This was probably a bonus of using them, but they did stop bots. They aren’t meant to stop the sophisticated AI we have now, they are meant to stop swarms of “dumb” bots from creating spam accounts, ddosing servers, etc
A few bots accessing your site doesn’t matter. A million bots do
I still use it. It pays for discord nitro for me, and an app or three every year.
That’s not even tinfoil-y at all. That’s exactly what they’re for. These days, they’ve also started branching into training for AI image generators.
I mean, I thought it was fairly common knowledge that those image tests were being used to to crowdsource AI training data.
I’m pretty sure that’s explicit
Training and validating machine learning models was always part of the point of captchas, it's not even a secret