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Captchas getting harder or am I just getting blind (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tried to make on new account on lemmy... It did work in the end (obviously). Good thing there is the audio version to read it for me. (sarcasm, I know it's supposed to be for accessibility purposes. Still used it though)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I think the CAPTCHAs have to keep getting harder and harder because the bots keep getting better and better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It is already a lost race though.

For instance, when humans were asked to solve distorted text CAPTCHAs, they were able to solve them in 9 to 15 seconds. That sounds great until you learn that they were only able to get the answer correctly 50-84% of the time.

On the other hand, bots taking the same texts were able to answer the same tests in less than a second, and they were able to do it more accurately—99.8% accurately, specifically.