CAPTCHA doesn't stop bots, and let us be honest, it never really did. It frustrated the hell out of people though, and caused people to waste time doing these challenges. Meanwhile even before AI bad actors and bots could get past it simply by using captcha solver services run by exploited humans solving captchas for the service.

It's a display of security theater meant to make normies feel safe but in reality doesn't stop most bad actors.

This is actually a good sign for self driving. Google was using this data as a training set for Waymo. If AI is accurately identifying vehicles and traffic markings, it should be able to process interactions with them easier.

And yet I can't beat the CAPTCHAs because reCAPTCHA doesn't like VPNs lol

So can we stop using those damn things? They're super annoying!

Aren't these Captchas designed to get training data for AI models anyway?

"System does what it was designed to do" doesn't feel that surprising...

Well yeah, I'd hope so, that's the entire point.

Catcha's data collection always was with the intent for training ai on these skills. That's "the point" of them.

It's reasonable to expect that the older version of captchas can now be beaten by modern ai, because they're often literally trained on that exact data to beat it.

Captcha effectively is free to use on websites as a tool because the data collection is the "payment", they then license that data out to people like OpenAI to train with for stuff like image recognition.

It's why ai is progressing so fast, captchas are one of humanity's long term collected data silos that are very full now.

We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.

I fucking hate these. I've seen old people that don't know any better get stuck on these for at least 30 minutes.

When it's asking for motorcycles but it's clearly a scooter

Buster is awesome to get past recaptcha. I use it with my own Speech to Text API key since its free from Google. Using Google to beat Google.

https://github.com/dessant/buster

Wait, so if a visitor fails the v3 Captcha, v2 is used as a fallback?
That makes absolutely no sense.

But, I cannot pass those 50% of the time... what does that mean?

My score is lower.

I can see a future where the Internet is completely run by bots and AI to the point where no human actually uses the Internet anymore.

It's like an island that gets overrun with rats - there are just too many to deal with so you leave.

Cool, so can Google shut it down now?

I fail more of those checks then these AI bots do. Surreal.

Meanwhile I sometimes fail those. I have been locked out of applications because I missed a square of a bus, or perhaps because I like to be efficient in my mouse cursor movements. I ducking hate CAPTCHAs.

I mean, we literally train them by completing the CAPTCHAs. Why do you think you were picking things like bikes, traffic lights, cars, and busses? The only question now is what's next...