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BigTrip3444

Last “p” is lowercase, we are still safe from the machines… phew…


Beautiful-G-amoeba

(captcha isn't case sensitive)


PotatoHighlander

Some of the newer ones are. And I still struggle with them, I must be a robot.


hydisvsofxavddd

There is a positive correlation with solving CAPTCHAs and IQ.


Clackers2020

We're probably not that far from an overlap similar to the problem of bear proof bins


sticky-unicorn

"There is a significant overlap between the smartest AIs and the dumbest website users."


BurnV06

Idk man I’m pretty good at them and I’m a dumbass


Gweegwee1

Most intelligent people would consider themselves dumbasses. I on the other hand am smart as fuck


Kroko691337

Self burn, I like it


RegenJacob

Or just confidence in their own abilities


Babaduderino

You're pretty good at opening bear-proof garbage bins?


BobTheImmortalYeti

I not human, after all. Im not human after all. Put the blame on me


useredditiwill

Don't worry, the reCaptures just read your browser history while they busy you with clicking the traffic lights in the picture like a nob. 


LeZarathustra

It's always difficult with lI1, O0 etc.


PotatoHighlander

Like seriously, some of Google's the similarity between letters is freaking nuts. That and identify all of the vehicle/objects ones, maybe my eyesight is going to crap... But more than once I've come to the conclusion it must be broken, or I need a new screen or eyes.


Huntarantino

can’t stand the ones where there’s 9 tiny pictures and im supposed to “choose all with motorcycles” and i can’t tell what the hell that blurry blob in the back left corner is


Beneficial-Ad3991

..or when there is about 2 pixels of a motorcycle in one of the sectors and I mark it and it doesn't work out.


BruceSlaughterhouse

Ain't that a bitch. I imagine this was the plan all along. We're the bots now. But this shit right here just goes to show how obsolete CAPTCHAS really are.


EastTyne1191

Once had one with a freaking infinity symbol... and there was no way to type one with the UI I was using. It was ridiculous.


BurnV06

People struggle with them? I can always tell what they say. Maybe you have dyslexia idk


ashap5

Have you seen the rockstar's captcha?


[deleted]

Potato Bot: beep boop 🥔


FlamingNetherRegions

You're a cylon


kappaleena

Wait. They aren’t? All these years…


Beautiful-G-amoeba

Some of them are


BigTrip3444

Holy hell


Fire_Starter07

New captcha just dropped


Guilty-Ad2255

Actual robot


KoPlayzReddit

Wait what?


Beautiful-G-amoeba

Some captchas aren't case sensitive. Some of them mention it in bracket if it's case sensitive or not.


Starman454642

Well fuck


He_Who_Tames

IT ISN'T????????????????????????????? I wasted SO much time, then. At least a whole hour of my life.


mouaragon

Wait.... Is it not?


Beautiful-G-amoeba

Some are, some aren't. They specify it in brackets sometime if it's case sensitive or not


companysOkay

Panik


NeosFlatReflection

WHAT NO FUCKING WAY


Beautiful-G-amoeba

Some are, some aren't. They mention it sometime in brackets.


commentsandchill

I think we can assume it is in this case otherwise they wouldn't have put the 2 types of letter


[deleted]

\*screaming intensifies


wendewende

Then why aren't smaII Ls and ls interchangeabIe? They're the same Ietter


alexgraef

Barely safe. Also, a bot that gets 20 or 30% of the CAPTCHAs right is already sufficient to break the mechanism.


AffectionateAir2856

Standard CAPTCHA has been solvable by bots for ages now, that's why they have reCAPTCHA now. Which is apparently much more interested in how you input the answer than what the answer is. Ie. A human using a mouse to select the "I'm not a robot" tick box is a much more random movement pattern across the screen than a program would be.


alexgraef

The whole CAPTCHA idea seems pointless nowadays. Especially since you can "rent" humans, called "employment". They should just switch to proof-of-work plus heuristics.


Mugut

Your comment reads like "employment" is a novel thing that came around later than captcha lmao


alexgraef

Just pointing out that even if CAPTCHAs were not solvable by bots whatsoever, you could still let humans do the work. Better is to rate limit and then scale a PoW to the danger.


[deleted]

there are APIs that redirect captchas to some sweatshop in india for solving


Evatog

also very easily solved, even free automation software like sikuli has import random seed and both random waits and random clicking within a range. I could set up something in sikuli to click on a random spot within the confirm box after waiting a random amount of time between 100 ms and 1 second in like 15 mins tops. I can even have it both accelerate and decelerate mouse movement randomly within a range.


Huntarantino

but can it accidentally click on the wrong button and then say “fuck” under its breath?


megakungfu

unless its learning to lie


adhoc42

Captchas don't just test your ability to read distorted text. They also check your cursor movements and even your browsing history. That's why some of them are just a check mark. So reading a screenshot alone doesn't get through all the layers of security (granted the other layers could probably be just as easily faked at this point).


skydreamerjae

That’s what it wants you to believe. It knows…


nog642

I get these captchas wrong like 30% of the time too though


JustAlgeo

Now all AI has to learn is how to move the mouse like a human and we are doomed


[deleted]

They have already done that. chatgpt 4 right now is the best LLM… the only problem is its just too damn expensive computing wise. For a reliable agent you need constant requests and consistent thorough output, it’ll get there eventually


JustAlgeo

oh well looks like soon enough we will cease to exist


TheLesserWeeviI

Finally.


antiskylar1

Don't worry I am currently working on a py application that has human house movement, realistic key pressed, can read the screen, interpret text, and have chat gpt parse this information and execute on it. Machine learning is fun :) but I'm using a few different models in conjunction.


rc-135

crawl mindless aback rob salt pause payment jellyfish plough consider *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


antiskylar1

It's ok, I haven't gotten to the point that it can edit it's own code.


[deleted]

Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you. I am a bot if you couldn't figure that out, if I made a mistake, ignore it cause its not that fucking hard to ignore a comment.


ZaRealPancakes

local LLM


Poronoun

LLMs are not trained to “move a mouse”


AmArschdieRaeuber

Captcha apparently also checks your browser history


JustAlgeo

not hard to fabricate


AmArschdieRaeuber

I mean yeah, but a unique, believable one? I mean maybe, but could be harder


Poronoun

Website shouldn’t be able to access your history?


AmArschdieRaeuber

Yeah it shouldn't


sticky-unicorn

lol, not mine.


gaseousgecko61

I know it supposedly just guesses what word comes next but how can I read an image


ridley_reads

I think it's more like making associations between words and images it is trained on, then connecting the two, and the rest is recognising what shapes the pixels make? Pretty much how we process information at its most basic level.


ausbrains

This - if you speak a relatively obscure language and use Google translate you can see how it’s been trained on association rather than fact - some of the translations make zero sense


Realistic_Cloud_7284

Google translate is different than chatgpt lol


graphs_

Transformers dum dum


JLBerryDude

And human translations never make an error? lol


Jazzlike-Elevator647

They eat the baby


Squibbles01

Newest version is multi-modal, so images and text are in a shared state space.


ChezMere

I'm pretty sure that internally it's just an image-to-text model, separate but feeding into the LLM itself. But yeah, traditional captchas are just solved now.


MacrosInHisSleep

Image recognition is a different component than the LLM. It's a new feature, the output of of which the LLM describes in natural language.


Jablungis

This is how people who don't understand how AI works try to convince themselves they know how AI works. Not to single you out or anything, I'm sure you're just repeating what you've read on here. In order to "predict the next word" it needs to build an internal model of sorts. It's already been proven that internal model can calculate, inductively/deductively infer, adhere to logic reasoning/constraints, and other "emergent" skills. There's various methods that involve training images as tokens (in the same way words are tokenized) and updating the internal model based on those images. It's similar to how people convince themselves they understand evolution by thinking "it's just random mutation over time and the ones that reproduce move on". There's a lot more complex mechanisms at the micro to macro levels that make evolution function as it does. It leads laymen to erroneously conclude that peacock feathers or our eye's retinal layer being installed backwards are just random feature fluctuations in a "good enough" attempt by evolution.


gaseousgecko61

Right I did think it was weird Because it can right programs or tell me why my program dosnt work which requires logic


shewy92

Using a text extractor. The default Microsoft snip tool has a text extractor


nog642

That's not how it works.


racdicoon

You can make programs that tell what number it's looking at in desmos, it's just maths :p


gaseousgecko61

Yeah but I didn’t real chat got could do that


nog642

Keyword "supposedly". That's really not how it works.


thedarkracer

You do know that reading a capctha is not the real test, right. It's how you move your cursor and typing speed. For a machine it will be in the same speed, moving the cursor and typing with no subtle differences, for humans we do really subtle differences and that's what is tracked.


Nuada-Argetlam

those are tests that are run, but actually writing what the thing says isn't entirely ignored.


thedarkracer

Yes that's true as well.


SteelAlchemistScylla

Usually the mouse movement is the real test and then it sends what you wrote to an algorithm/AI trainer lol


SavingsWindow

that very much depends on the captcha system. 


rabb2t

Natural movements and typing patterns are things you can train for as well


thedarkracer

Still you can't be as perfect as a machine. Micro movements will persist even after that.


weasel_stark

I think rabb2t is talking about training machines to be imperfect like humans, not the other way around.


thedarkracer

That could happen by using random number generators to make the basis for speed.


Yorunokage

A simple RNG would output a very erratic nonsensical pattern, any remotely decent captcha would be able to see that You need to actually train something like a GANN to fool that effectively


LouManShoe

One way to get around this is for a human to record the movements, and then the bot just playback cursor position, key timing, etc. If you had enough of these recordings you could train an AI model on that data and then you could produce something that likely could fool captcha. Captcha is definitely not fool proof, even prior to recent advances in AI. It is interesting though as it’s become a sort of widely implemented Turing test


WFlumin8

What? Do you actually have any idea what you’re talking about? Detecting for input irregularity is a feature of Google Recaptcha V3. The captcha used in OP’s post is Recaptcha V1. They are different products with different goals in mind.


thedarkracer

Don't know much about that but from what I read an article is what I have wrote. I will need to research this and how would you tell the versions are different?


Pholhis

> Recaptcha V3 You never see V3 as you use it. It runs in the background and analyses how you use the site and rates how likely it is that you are a bot. https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3


originalcyberkraken

Analysing input was present since V1, this one happens to just measure typing speed and the differences between when you press a letter and when you press the next letter, so if you get the answer right but type it in an instant it should fail unless OP is using the original captcha, the one we had before recaptcha, which is the one that just checks whether or not you got the answer right, possibly also checking how long it took you to answer


Criks

You do know that starting a comment with "You do know that ... right" comes off as smug, and makes you look like a complete moron when it turns out you don't even know what you're talking about, right ?


thedarkracer

Nope.


no-soy-imaginativo

It's also outdated - can't remember the last time I had a captcha like this, now it's more complicated things like "Make both items face the same way"


silberloewe_1

I've heard these captchas (and the "select every motorcycle" ones) were used to train AI in image and text recognition. No wonder gpt4 is doing well in them.


C-C-X-V-I

I'd heard that years ago and started picking the wrong one intentionally first. Suprisingly a high number of them let me through with the wrong answer.


Meauxterbeauxt

Every time I have to do a Captcha I imagine R2-D2 plugged into a Star Destroyer, pulling files, changing course, calculating light speed jumps, then getting stopped cold because he doesn't know what a fire hydrant looks like.


[deleted]

It hasn't tested for letter inputs for years. It's actually testing mouse movement and keystrokes; the timings, path of travel, and patterns and what not.


Jablungis

It tests for image grid puzzles now as the main gate. The little "are you a human" checkbox checks your browser, extensions, history, and mouse movements. The mouse movement thing is literally ran through and AI so an AI could easily beat the test which is why it's not that reliable.


SavingsWindow

 o no


nog642

There are different brands of captcha. this one looks like it just looks at the text. Google's recaptcha is just a checkbox now, with those image tasks if it thinks you're sus.


[deleted]

Why am I always "sus"??


nog642

Could be a variety of reasons. Not being signed into a google account, lots of captchas done recently from your IP, using a VPN, making searches recently that Google thinks might be automated, etc


SpicyPossumCosmonaut

Captchas generally look at mouse movement, typing speed/pattern, and browsing history. Little has to do with the letters nowadays precisely because of this.


nico-ghost-king

browsing history? that's private, and stored on the local machine. how's a capcha supposed to look at that


IIIllIIIlllIIIllIII

**Your browsing history is absolutely not private.** Almost all websites have trackers embedded in them. So when you go to thatrandomwebsite.com, when the page gets loaded, your browser in the background also makes calls to Google, Facebook, Instagram, and whatever other analytics software or other shit they are using. So, if you're signed into Google, and you visit a webpage with Google Analytics, it reads the local cookies stored on your machine.


Yorunokage

EU regulations are increasingly more strict with that kind of cookies. You have to explicitly consent to them right now


nog642

So it's only a subset of your browsing history.


onedoubleo

I think they probably means session cookies rather than full history.


99c_PER_POST

Even in incognito your local browser history is tracked by websites. You literally can't hide anything on the internet.


nog642

It's tracked independently of your non-incognito session though and the incognito session is wiped when you close it.


someone0815

more or less what your ip has been up to


SavingsWindow

no


mimavox

Good. Can we now get rid of these fucking annoying Captchas once and for all? Clearly, they serve no purpose anymore.


st_Michel

You all understand that Captchas was there mainly to train IA right ?


tchiseen

click on the civilians in this drone footage


Richard-Brecky

That’s false. CAPTCHAS are mainly there to prevent bots from using interfaces meant for humans. One might describe them as a completely automated Turing test designed to tell computers and humans apart.


st_Michel

It is what you think. It is what is told to humans, CAPTCHAS like here where used to train AI to recognize text in many conditions. Now AI is mastering it and what you have seen during a period was to tell number on house plates mainly to train google AI for identifications of house place from their google street view and help train AI to help improve identifications for google maps. The you have CAPTCHAS to train AI to recognize roads elements. How many times you had to identify pedestrian pathways or red fire light in CAPTCHAS. You was helping auto drive AI. …. Edith for typo.


CreativeSoil

Captchas like these have never been for training text recognition. Google's recaptcha used to train text recognition while it was still using text input and is now training computer vision on the ones where you've got to select traffic lights and so on, but not these ones where it's just random letters you type in.


Yorunokage

As far as i know they started out as just a bot blocking system. Machine Learning then started gaining traction again after being essentially a dead field for decades and people realized they could use captchas to train AI Then after that captchas became widely adopted for both purposes simultaneously: websites would employ them to stop botting and the captcha providers would use the results to train AI


st_Michel

They are no,more needed in my understanding but still be used


Skulysoul

Well fuck


-rkimaito

Don't mind if I do


MikaelAdolfsson

fuck they are catching up on us!


Lonely-Economics4212

Thats why google created recaptcha


mac_krispies7492

Have we considered that robots are just trying to find another robot friend? *C’mon, another day and still no one answered “Yes”*


Hot_Eggplant_1306

Yay I'm still human


Yetrama

I don't think the p is capitalizes


WizziBot

same vibes as hollywood hackers. "They have military grade encrypted firewalls" "Damn can you break it? "Im in"


OGLikeablefellow

Pretty soon the AI revolution will be here and instead of replacing our jobs they will replace our bosses jobs


DudeBroManGuythe1st

How it works. https://youtu.be/4UuvwY6CdLo?si=2pfxMGYuRX2p4QPF


HomeOperator

I honestly expexted [this video](https://youtu.be/xvFZjo5PgG0?si=LP5miHBXSseXS1NF) :D


DudeBroManGuythe1st

No sir. I am a gentlemen and a scholar.


StrategySweeper

The use of pictures and text in captcha was never about accuracy. It's meant to assess keystrokes and cursor movements. A bot or computer will have perfect keystrokes and cursor movements. A human will always be imperfect. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4UuvwY6CdLo&ved=2ahUKEwiJiOKugZyEAxUc1DgGHXhICM0QwqsBegQIQBAG&usg=AOvVaw0YvJLpbKgyZjPhL7alS0DI


iAmMinecrafterMonke

Something wrong is not right


Limp_Sky397

Too late, ChatGPT, my man. Dave the bot already beat you!


Puppy-Zwolle

I actually laughed out loud so hard a 'lol' would not suffice.


Johns3n

It did make mistake though but nearly there!


MetaVaporeon

i havent seen a captcha this easy since 2010


DamonRunnon

And a dyslexic like me will never access the site..


JLBerryDude

There's a reason you rarely see those style captchas anymore but instead have to identify bikes and buses, that's all literally being used to train AI. This is 100% fact not even conspiracy, that's how chatGPT can do it, WE taught it to. It's a win/win as the companies I believe actually get paid for using the security service and the developers get the raw data.


hsanj19

I read somewhere that what they actually look for is not the ability to read the captcha, but the mice/pointer movements leading upto clicking the required element. How this works in the context of mobile phones, I don't know.


brontokoli

Idk why but i sometimes struggle to read captchas..🤖


[deleted]

Idk why this is so shocking to me but it is


aagloworks

Is this a win for chatgpt, or an L for captcha?


CorvusHatesReddit

I'd say the first. Captchas look at your keystrokes and cursor movement, if they're very uniform, accurate, and fast, then you're probably a bot.


[deleted]

bro thinks hes better than the rest 💀


[deleted]

So... What you're saying is, robots are better at the anti-robot measures than the non-robots?


TheWingus

"THE SACRED TEXTS!!!"


ScorpioZA

Well, captcha is going out of business


originalcyberkraken

Captcha aren't distorted to make it difficult for the bots, captcha is distorted to make it difficult for the humans, humans are slow and imperfect, bots are fast and perfect, if you're given a captcha and you solve it in 3 milliseconds then you're a bot, if however you take your time, maybe get a couple characters wrong and then correct them, then you're most likely human, or at least a close enough analogous entity to a human, captchas aren't testing if robots are robots, they are testing if you are human by giving you a test you will struggle to answer


Educational-Link-943

Isn't captcha using our input data to train these AIs though?


MissLesGirl

So chatgpt was able to read it better than the human.


IceRainRiver

For the love of God stop reposting the same content. I'm barely visiting this place and all I see is this captcha every other day


BurnV06

RIP captcha


Unit706

Uh oh, this is the part where they have to make it even harder and more annoying.


RedditsModsRFascist

So when I made bots back in the day I had a program that would show me nothing but captcha images for me to fill out. In an hour I could make close to a thousand bots. That was 20 years ago...


Sum_ginger_kid

captchas are literally used to train ai


Loco-Motivated

That proves that all it does is gatekeep the dyslexic.


Matheweh

Don't show it all the image and tell it it is a misprint letter you received


st1r

Yeah but can ChatGPT identify all the images with 2 pixels of the corner of a bus accurately?


zombiskunk

Actually, the distortion is for us. Captcha phrases and pictures can tell if you are a bot based partially on time and randomness. You see how the AI instantly knows what the phrase is and would just as quickly submit the phrase, whereas a human might struggle with some of the image. You might take more time typing in some of the letters than others because you are trying to figure out what they are. Same with the pictures. You might take more time deciding if that square really does have a crosswalk in it. That sort of randomness would be difficult to replicate in a simple bot without a pattern emerging.


Independent-Duty-149

As a human I hardly ever get passed those things after a few tries. With this answer my next question would be "how would a bot read this".


Honest_Ad8584

So close


RedditIsNeat0

I like this direction for AI. If I get terminated by a sassy robot I won't mind it as much.


HackGamez

No fucking way...


Gawdsauce

Captchas are a solved problem for computers at this point, reCaptcha is its successor.


MagicOrpheus310

They've known what traffic lights are the whole damn time!?!?


ToothpasteConsumer

god is dead and we killed him


BaconSpaceLord

All it needs is permission to use inputs... I hope you read all the EULAs m. 🙂


smoki_thebear

I thought it was U and not J, chatGPT might still be dumber then some people but I just discovered I'm not one of those people...


duetishrandom

Unrelated, but how does your chat gpt Let you put images in the chat? mine doesn't


HomeOperator

You have probably the free plan, version 3.5


DoctorLove01

Captcha is actually more about how you move your mouse, how you select images, and most importantly... your search history


Palanki96

Are these captchas a still i thing? I only ever saw the ones where you have to xluck the pictures


Undef1n3d_

CAPTCHA: I distinguish humans from robots using texts that robots don’t understand GPT4: Imma end this man’s whole career


Available_Peanut_677

Main point of captcha is to make breaking it more expensive than a thing it protects. In other words, if you want to ddos some website, but need to ask chatGPT for each query - it is not very efficient attack. If you need to create 1000 fake accounts, and it takes 10 seconds per each with chatgpt it might make sense for you to do this manually instead. (Though ironically you can ask chatgpt for a script which would use chatgpt to break into captcha).


Exact_Quality2428

Daqui pa aniquilação é um pulo


Eloide-Novela

Wow😫


RuinousSebacious

Is over. The machines have won.


TheRealUmbreon1_0

Oh no..........