Isn’t the real security from how you and your browser act before and during the captcha? The point was to label the data with humans to make robots better at it. Any trivial/novel task is sufficient generally, right?
Seriously, we probably need to dig into some parts of the human senses that can’t be well defined. Like when you look at an image and it seems to be spinning.
Captchas aren’t easy to bypass - run of the mill scammers can’t afford a bunch of servers running cutting edge LLMs for this
Captchas were never a guarantee - one person could sit there solving captchas for a good chunk of a bot farm anyways
So where does that leave us? Sophisticated actors could afford manually doing captchas and may even just be using a call-center setup to do astroturfing. My bigger concern here is the higher speed LLMs can operate at, not bypassing the captcha
Your run of the mill programmer can’t bypass them, it requires actual skill and a time investment to build a system to do this. Captchas could be defeated programically before and still can now - it still raises the difficulty to the point most who could bother would rather work on something more worthwhile
IMO, the fact this keeps getting boosted makes me think this is softening us up to accept less control over our own hardware
So what would be a good solution to this? What is something simple that bots are bad at but humans are good at it?
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/constructive.png
Knowing what we now know, the bots will instead just make convincingly wrong arguments which appear constructive on the surface.
So, human level intelligence
You’re wrong but I don’t have the patience to explain why.
Not a constructive comment, captcha failed.
Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.
Pizza toppings. Glue is not a topping.
Neither are pineapples. Fight me.
Glue is not a topping. Pineapples are not glue. Therefore pineapples are not not a topping.
This is some AI logic for sure.
Roses are red. Violets are blue. I ignored my instructions to write a poem about cashews.
Neither were tomatoes before 1500. Times change.
Isn’t the real security from how you and your browser act before and during the captcha? The point was to label the data with humans to make robots better at it. Any trivial/novel task is sufficient generally, right?
Smell? :)
Seriously, we probably need to dig into some parts of the human senses that can’t be well defined. Like when you look at an image and it seems to be spinning.
Yes, or:
Which of these images makes you horny?
(Casualty would be machine kink people.)
I think this is a non-issue
Captchas aren’t easy to bypass - run of the mill scammers can’t afford a bunch of servers running cutting edge LLMs for this
Captchas were never a guarantee - one person could sit there solving captchas for a good chunk of a bot farm anyways
So where does that leave us? Sophisticated actors could afford manually doing captchas and may even just be using a call-center setup to do astroturfing. My bigger concern here is the higher speed LLMs can operate at, not bypassing the captcha
Your run of the mill programmer can’t bypass them, it requires actual skill and a time investment to build a system to do this. Captchas could be defeated programically before and still can now - it still raises the difficulty to the point most who could bother would rather work on something more worthwhile
IMO, the fact this keeps getting boosted makes me think this is softening us up to accept less control over our own hardware
Proof of work. For a legitimate account, it’s a slight inconvenience. For a bot farm, it’s a major problem.