Of course they can! Humans have been training them on this task for 20 years.
am I gonna need an AI to solve captchas now?
cause they’ve gotten so patently stupidly ridiculous that I cant even solve them as a somewhat barely functional biological intelligence.
If some sites only need me to click the one checkbox to prove I am a human, why aren’t ALL sites using this method?!
when you have to click once, means they have been gathering all your actions up to that point, and for sure you are human. If you get asked to click images, means they don’t have enough information yet, or you failed some security step (wrong password) and the site told captcha to be extra sure
<click the traffic lights>
me: clicks all the traffic lights
<wrong!>
Bro, everytime I get the select all the ‘x’ tiles (motorcycle, bicycle, bus, etc) one I never know if it means “all” of them, like even ones with just a little bit on the tile. Does it want the tires, too? It’s bullshit. Never seems to be correct, what I select.
So what would be a good solution to this? What is something simple that bots are bad at but humans are good at it?
I work in a related space. There is no good solution. Companies are quickly developing DRM that takes full control of your device to verify you’re legit (think anticheat, but it’s not called that). Android and iPhones already have it, Windows is coming with TPM and MacOS is coming soon too.
Edit: Fun fact, we actually know who is (beating the captchas). The problem is if we blocked them, they would figure out how we’re detecting them and work around that. Then we’d just be blind to the size of the issue.
Edit2: Puzzle captchas around images are still a good way to beat 99% of commercial AIs due to how image recognition works (the text is extracted separately with a much more sophisticated model). But if I had to guess, image puzzles will be better solved by AI in a few years (if not sooner)
So linux users are about to be blocked everywhere unless they install malware. I think I would rather just live with a dead internet.
I don’t have this problem because I use Windows
Technically if you use windows or Mac, you already have the malware installed by default.
