• 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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    5 months ago

    Am I the only one who has to do like 12 of these in a row before my humanity is recognized? Beyond mildly inconvenient, it’s downright annoying now.

    Edit: I use Mullvad + Firefox + Betterfox + uBO. I don’t think my setup is that sophisticated lmao

    • RandomStickman
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      245 months ago

      After I started using a VPN it’s way too annoying to try and pass it. I use the audio alternative when possible. If not I kinda just give up lol

      • @[email protected]
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        5 months ago

        I tried the audio once. I could hear less than half of the needed numbers. I don’t know how blind people are supposed to pass google captchas if the audio challenge is so garbled.

    • Unruffled [they/them]
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      175 months ago

      It’s because you are using a VPN. You always get a ton more captchas when using a VPN on some websites. Mainly because they don’t want you using one, so you can be tracked for ads.

    • Kerb
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      165 months ago

      imo thats unusual.
      i usually need to do 3 at most.

      do you use a vpn or something like that?

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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          65 months ago

          It must be the VPN. Just about every site I visit is worse now. Several times I’ve visited a sites and just been outright denied entry if I don’t turn my VPN off. And I Alt + Left the fuck out of them.

          • @[email protected]
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            35 months ago

            Same. Every time I get a captcha I remember it’s because I don’t have Google sitting on my shoulder watching literally every move I make on my browser.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      If it has an error it will keep asking you for more forever.

      It’s best to refresh the page if you get more than a couple.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      Those are used to train AI, so my guess is there are some kinds of quotas that they have to make within a certain time and when they underperform they just increase the load on each user.

    • AItoothbrush
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      55 months ago

      If i try to pretend im a human it goes faster. Fidget with the mouse, hesitate and make a few small mistakes.

    • babybus
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      5 months ago

      You aren’t the only one. I don’t bother solving them anymore because of this nonsense. I simply close the tab.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      This may have changed since they seem to alter how these things work from time to time, but I’ve found that if you just keep getting one captcha after another, and you know you’re not making errors, try solving them slowly.

    • Kairos
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      25 months ago

      No. The point of recapatcha is to punish people protecting themselves. The system absolutely lies to you that you got a challenge incorrect.

  • NutWrench
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    455 months ago

    Ever wonder why these captchas are always cars, bicycles, motorcycles, traffic lights and crosswalks? Because YOU are doing the work of teaching the next generation of AI for self-driving cars.

    • @[email protected]
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      175 months ago

      Can’t wait until we get trolley problem CAPTCHAs and we have to choose the square with the most expendable human lives

    • @[email protected]
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      165 months ago

      I don’t believe it, at least not anymore.

      Google has had more than enough data to train AI models from reCAPTCHA for many years. In 2010 it displayed 100 million captchas per day. You simply do not need hundreds of billions of solved captchas in your data set.

      I feel like its only purpose nowadays is stopping basic bots and annoying people who don’t let themselves be tracked as much as advertisers would like.

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        Yeah the most recent version of CAPTCHA is completely seamless for the end user because there is no more value to be had gathering this kind of data. Instead it runs in the background of the web site, looking at your mouse movements/clicks/keystrokes, and determining whether or not you’re a bot based on that information.

        The problem is a lot of websites still use the old version, or their own hacked together CAPTCHA alternative, which decent bots have been able to beat for a while now.

    • @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      My favorite is when it asks me to identify stairs. I just imagine a self-driving car mistaking a set of stairs as more road and deciding to try and climb the steps.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      I can’t believe I never put that 2 and 2 together.

      It stresses how stupid AI is then if it was a human the question would be “is this a stop sign?” So it’s not even asking us to validate data. To me that means AI is still far from being intelligent. It’s requiring our input to learn. That’s not how we operate. My kids don’t require me to show them images of a stop sign for them to know what one is.

      • @[email protected]
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        55 months ago

        You and many other humans are doing verification work

        It’s pretty sure it’s already right, but if enough people get the same image and get it wrong the same way then something’s up, flag it

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            I took some compsci classes years ago when this tech was new and that’s exactly how it was described as being handled

            Once image recognition software got good enough to be right most of the time they started this shit to help get it the rest of the way to all of the time

            Do it any other way and you have to pay those people

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Theres a CGPGrey video that describes old techniques. It’s not quite up to date on some of its predictions, but it is how some machine learning works. Of course, it doesn’t discuss current proprietary techniques, because those are company secrets. Still, it’s as good a guess we’ll likely get, unless something radically different has been invented:

        https://youtu.be/R9OHn5ZF4Uo

        There is also a second video about more modern stuff, but it’s more a footnote:
        https://youtu.be/wvWpdrfoEv0

  • UnfortunateShort
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    Recaptcha is one of the worst providers of such services. At times, I need to complete like 10 for being one square off or whatever, while I need a single attempt for e.g. Arkose Labs stuff.

    Sometimes, like in the picture (whether it’s real or not), the captcha is simply wrong and you can’t do it right but by accident. I already did not visit websites because I didn’t feel like giving it another try.

    • @[email protected]
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      95 months ago

      Try the audio captcha option, those usually have an actual answer it will accept. Which ironically speech to text is more or less reliably able to solve, and there are extensions to solve captchas automatically for you that way

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        5 months ago

        There’s unfortunately a chance audio option just locks you out because fuck you :(

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      are you using a datacentre IP?

      I’ve found that when i have my VPN connected it will get me to do like dozens of them. if my VPN isn’t connected it is usually just 1 or 2.

      Also when it’s in the cycle of prompting you for dozens of them, skip any like the one in the image above until you get one of the ones that has you select from multiple matching pictures. these seem to be the only ones that matter when it’s in that state.

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      It’s being heavily impacted by AI as well, since the “correct” answer is chosen democratically so if enough bots are answering captchas then they choose whats correct and it becomes better at verifying botity than humanity.

  • lime!
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    145 months ago

    i really wish quote tweets (xeets? skeets? yeets?) would put the original post above the response…

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Honestly I feel like in this case it works out better. “Eat shit, Rene Magritte” is such a good line to have no context on.

  • @[email protected]
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    105 months ago

    It takes an extra second or two, but I’ve been using speech-to-text on the audio option. Instead of a chore, it’s an exploit! (Not really but your dopamine doesn’t have to know that)

  • @[email protected]
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    85 months ago

    Ok what parts of this would actually count? Do the corners in the 2 panels count? I’ve had to try this version of captcha again so many times

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      I think it’d only be 2 squares for the rectangle of the traffic light.

      I’ve been doing a lot of captchas lately and they always seem to want less outer edge than I expect as a probably human. Like if only a small corner of a bus is in a tile, I just ignore it.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      As a large language model, I cannot appreciate art. However, this painting by Monet is especially exquisite because of the fine details in the brush strokes and the feeling of space in the …