What the rule have they done to captchas

[Screenshot of a captcha asking to select all animals heavier than a jungle cat mouse of some kind. Pictures to select include elephants, ladybugs, ants with hats, and computer mouses]

Have they added AI slop to captchas now??

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16 Comments

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 41 pts · 279d (3 replies)

i love the "select all motorcycles" one on a picture that's all motorcycle.

and then it fails.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 279d

You fell for the moped trick again

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 279d

and then it makes you complete ten different captchas after that one because you have the audacity to use a vpn.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 277d

Or the one that refreshes when you click a motorcycle but it never stops giving you motorcycles

velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 279d (1 reply)

I don't need to use any website this badly...

Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 279d
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drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 279d (1 reply)

They might be generated for the purpose of creating adversarial images that appear relatively normal to a human but confuse AI image recognition. You can see an additional layer of weird patterns on top of them too.

IMO this is not a particularly annoying captcha though. I've had some where the text instructions are so indirect and strangely phrased that it's not even clear what you're supposed to do.

tb_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d

Are the images generated or are you training it to generate images?

I certainly know that the goggle street view is used for training models.

Seaguy05@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 279d (2 replies)

I'm not gonna lie, I see some effectiveness considering the ai summary called the mouse a jungle cat.

Edit: op needs glasses and it wasn't an ai summary.

phaedrus@piefed.world · 10 pts · 279d

I'm not sure that was an AI summary, I think that is OP that wrote that. I don't see anything about a jungle cat in the actual screenshot.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 279d

No, you can't blame that one on AI, that's all in my lack of great vision/not caring enough to zoom in.

user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 279d

I've actually been fine with this one, I can always pass it just fine. Google often has me re-do them or do multiple. Cloudflare doesn't let me in if my network is too slow (say throttled to 256kbps). But anyway, a lot of websites are broken with CF because while I can get to the website after passing captcha, their CDN still blocks me anyway. So I just get a partial website with no images where certain things don't work.

turbowafflz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 279d

Hcaptcha has been like that for a while now, it's terrible

GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 279d (1 reply)

the worst imo is the one where they ask you to select which stack has the given number of rocks; you have to go through a bunch of images to find that stack.

then, you have to do it like five+ times, and if you fail you have to restart.

Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d

I don't think I've ever wanted to visit a website that badly.

wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 279d

Conceptually these are really interesting and I don't really know enough about how LLMs work to know how to feel about them. It's a neat approach to avoiding the issue where LLMs are really good at pattern recognition and a use-case where on-demand image generation actually makes sense to me. It just all comes down to whether or not bots can easily solve it.

lol_idk@piefed.social · 3 pts · 279d

I enjoy the absurdity of these

melimosa@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 276d
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