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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] stealthnerd@lemmy.world 49 points 3 years ago

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.

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