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.
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As I understand it, the point of those captchas was never really "bots can't identify these things" (though you're right on that it was used to train). They use cursor movement, clicks, and other behaviours while you're solving it to detect if you are a bot or not.
The image choosing was always just to train their own bots
It's a combination.
Most captchas goals generally aren't 100% prevention, it's to put a workload in front, this makes spamming the site cost money, a bankrolled attempt could just as easily outsource the captchas to real humans.
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Since I started getting good at yosu and that fishing mini game in farmrpg I've been failing more captchas. I wonder if they're related knowing this
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The annoying thing is that they held us hostage for our free labor, but the results are proprietary for Google's benefit only.
That training data ought to be forced to be made freely available to the public, since we're the ones who actually created it.
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And yet I can't beat the CAPTCHAs because reCAPTCHA doesn't like VPNs lol
Captcha these days isn't even really a CAPTCHA in the traditional sense since most of the work it does is based on filtering of IP and browser fingerprinting, with a certain level of gamification because the goal is not just to keep out the people they fight against, but to waste their time, would work great if it didn't waste normal people's time, while real bad actors have easy ways to get around it.
I was going to say I’ve straight up just left whatever website I was trying to access because I was stuck in some endless loop of clicking on street crossings, buses, bikes, and street lights.
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So can we stop using those damn things? They're super annoying!
I'm kind of hoping the AI permanently beats them. I hate them too.
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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...
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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.
Yeah, my understanding is that these capchas were made to harvest data to use for AI/Autopilot driven cars. That's why they are always having you identify motorcycles, bycicles, crosswalks, stoplights, busses, etc. It's all stuff that automatic driving cars have had a hard time identifying.
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I fucking hate these. I've seen old people that don't know any better get stuck on these for at least 30 minutes.
it's super ableist. if someone has poor vision or colorblindness chances are they're going to miss things.
I have regular everything and I still fuck them up. "click the ones with a fire hydrant". But a tiny piece of fire hydrant is spilling into another box. Does it count? Does it not count? Good luck!!
I had one the other day that was deep fried jpegs to the max. Like, what the fuck am I supposed to do.
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Same. That's why Buster is my most recent must-have browser extension, alongside such greats as ublock and sponsorblock.
When it's asking for motorcycles but it's clearly a scooter
Or, like, "there's the bottom 10% of a traffic light in this one. Do I click that box? Ia that supposed to count?"
What they are doing is comparing your answer and seeing if it is consistent with how it has been answered previously. They realize that not everyone is going to give the exact same answer, so as long as you answer it in a way that enough other people have answered it, it should let you in.
I'll usually go with the minimum number of clicks that I think will get me through, since I'm lazy and it'll also at times slow down how fast you can click which is annoying.
I'll also answer them wrong if I think it's a mistake that enough other people will make. "Yes... that RV over there is a bus..."
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That tip of a handle bar that makes you wonder if that square counts or not.
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I had one with one of those Motorcycles with the long handles, apparently they aren't part of the bike, but the dudes foot holding it up is.
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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.
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Wait, so if a visitor fails the v3 Captcha, v2 is used as a fallback?
That makes absolutely no sense.
V3 isn't necessarily more effective than V2, it's just less obtrusive.
Not quite: it'll drop a v2 captcha for you to solve when a v3 one can't clearly classify you one way or another.
So if v3 isn't entirely sure you're human, it'll make you do a v2.
And if you fail the V2, it'll just take your word on it and let you pass anyway.
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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.
Some believe this happened years ago. Check out Dead Internet Theory.
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My score is lower.
Cool, so can Google shut it down now?
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...
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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.
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 never get the first one and rarely the second one. If it says to click all the squares with motorcycles and it’s just the one big picture, am I supposed to click stuff like the tire and mirrors? I always do and never get it right. Then most of the time they ask me to identify motorcycles, they show me motor scooters and what am I supposed to do then? I think I just need to get one of these bots to do it for me.
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I just close the page usually if I see one of these ones, I don't have the patience to click all the boxes and then it just sends you a different one.
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Thank God this means i can stop wondering if i should click on the... the 13 pixels from the fucking bike in that one corner square or wondering if i should count the scooter as a motorcycle fuck i am so tired of that shit
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Technically the "correct" answer is set by the highest percentage of people choosing it. EG: 19 people select Box A and 1 selects Box B, then the machine decides Box A is in fact correct.
That means these AI could be selecting the wrong answers for all anybody knows, if enough of them are answering the prompts, and still passing.
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