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gCaptcha is the leading rival for quality captcha services against Google's renowned and universally despised recaptcha. When Google increased the price for recaptcha competing services took off taking what Google started from to improve the experience significantly. Some experiences with smiling dogs and cloudy horses were deemed to take this too far but these experiments showed that there are improvements to be made in the captcha game.
With hackers out to solve any captcha programmatically captcha services need to stay one step ahead. The slider method was found to be easily bypassed. Rotating puzzle pieces is harder to solve but involves more user interaction and has moving parts in the code that can break.
Recently hCaptcha has introduce a test that challenges the user to click on the center of an owl's head. This is an improvement over selecting a type of ball from a grid of 9 or going through the excruciating experience Google inflicts on users. There must be a better way to prove that the person viewing the web page is a human and not a bot. How about it, Soylentils? What's your best idea for a captcha system given the state of the systems we have today?
[Ed's Comment: Bonus points if you can suggest a system that does not rely on graphics (not everyone uses the latest browsers or even anything more than a simple line of text) to access some sites - our own included. We have the need for a robust captcha system for people creating accounts in order to reduce the number of fake accounts being created by a bot.]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Friday March 31, @03:13PM (1 child)
GPT4 is quite good at a lot of tasks, but it isn't an agent. It doesn't know to look at a browser window, see a challenge, do the challenge, then click a button. That part of it would still require quite a lot of procedural programming to link up the human facing pieces to the AI's interface in a way it could understand and apply.
And the other piece is that it's not cheap. Your cost for AI processing power versus benefit per spam post starts to get expensive. We already know that some spammers pay humans in third world countries to solve captchas 24/7, so it will happen, but I'd not put my money in it being super duper common for lowest common denominator spammers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Saturday April 01, @03:28AM
I've heard that later versions take sound, pictures and video as input. The reply is still text but I doubt it's difficult to interpret "click on this coordinate" reply.
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