AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
I, for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.
Anyone who has been surfing the web for a while is probably used to clicking through a CAPTCHA grid of street images, identifying everyday objects to prove that they're a human and not an automated bot. Now, though, new research claims that locally run bots using specially trained image-recognition models can match human-level performance in this style of CAPTCHA, achieving a 100 percent success rate despite being decidedly not human.
ETH Zurich PhD student Andreas Plesner and his colleagues' new research, available as a pre-print paper, focuses on Google's ReCAPTCHA v2, which challenges users to identify which street images in a grid contain items like bicycles, crosswalks, mountains, stairs, or traffic lights. Google began phasing that system out years ago in favor of an "invisible" reCAPTCHA v3 that analyzes user interactions rather than offering an explicit challenge.
Despite this, the older reCAPTCHA v2 is still used by millions of websites. And even sites that use the updated reCAPTCHA v3 will sometimes use reCAPTCHA v2 as a fallback when the updated system gives a user a low "human" confidence rating.
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Need these bots as a browser addon now. When your using a VPN these things are the bane of your Internet browsing experience.
And I’ll be fucked if I can get them right first time round half the time!
Hmmm… do you float if we throw you in the water?
I don't use a VPN and they are still highly problematic. I get stuck in a cycle, like with cloudflare.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver
it switches to the accessibility version of CAPTCHA and uses speech recognition to solve it.
I've never been able to get this one to work, it will say it can't detect speech even though I can hear it being played.
for me it works most of the time, and I don't hear the speech being played at all while it's being solved. and it the rare cases when it doesn't detect speech, requesting another puzzle usually fixes it.