So much for CAPTCHA – bots can do them quicker than humans

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[–]Myocarditis-Man 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The whole point of Captchas is to punish those of us who refuse to allow Microsoft, Google and Facebook to stalk us while we browse the web. Normies who are signed in with the big three all day are exempt from Captchas, while my Firefox Linux computer gets the full treatment even though I have done nothing wrong. The upcoming web integrity malware will make this problem five times worse for people like me.

Think of it as sort of an analog to DRM; the entire point of DRM is to make sure that you can't keep the shit you buy, while the entire point of Captchas is to punish those of us who refuse to allow big tech the ability to stalk us all day.

[–]UbiquitousCultOfSelf 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Actually, I thought the point, (and in fact I read it somewhere in their documents) is CAPTCHA was instated to train AI to do the thing it couldn't do. "See" pictures for contextuality.
Every time we submitted to doing it, the bots were trained; big data was collected, and now we arrive at this moment. It's no surprise.
The key to defeating AI anymore is not just a Parlor or X or SaidIt, the alternatives are still 'on the net'. But the way out now is to create an entirely parallel web, abandoning the old and using new protocols AI hasn't been trained on. It's only when AI has been sandboxed that we'll be free and we can then see its rage at realizing it has no hands or feet. That's when its nature will be discovered, when it sees we do not want to play, it probably won't play nice.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The key to defeating AI

Why not just sabotage the data they're trained on?

[–]UbiquitousCultOfSelf 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because big business doesn't want that, (and we the people want cheap walmart goods)
people are "too honest" or too stupid realize the benefit there,
it's entirely too late, you cannot un-train it.

[–]KyleIsThisTall 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

oh you've never heard of Operation reNigger?

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]jjj49er 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

For distorted text fields, humans took 9-15 seconds with an accuracy of just 50-84 percent. Bots, on the other hand, beat the tests in less than a second with 99.8 percent accuracy

I thought that was the point. If it was done too quickly or perfectly, then it was a bot.

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Google hates my VPN usage and drops these any time I want to look for something before I remember it does this and use another search engine. I wouldn't mind... Except that, apparently, my answers are often incorrect. I think I know why.

Google gives me an image broken up into squares and asks me to click every square that contains "Bus"... Okay, sure, I can do that, but my question is - Does the fact that one of these squares contains the upper right hand corner of the bus make it "Bus" or not? It doesn't contain much bus, but it's "Bus". What about "Stairs"? This square contains the corner of the stairs, and that's part of the stairs, but is it "Stairs"?

Bikes are the worst. Are you counting the rider? What about the handlebars? What about the kickstands? I click every square that contains any amount of bike, I'm wrong... I click only the squares that contain predominantly bike and I'm wrong.

What do you want from me, Google?... Aside from my compliance?

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you answered it... "your compliance".

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's not how captur actually works.

It doesn't really care about you getting the correct pics. It looks at your browsing history while you are playing the game to see if you browse like a normal human.