Automated bots outperform humans in online Captcha tests, found researchers at the University of California, Irvine. Their study of popular websites with Captcha tests showed bots were faster and achieved higher accuracy (85% to 100%) than humans (50% to 85%).

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384228-bots-are-better-at-beating-are-you-a-robot-tests-than-humans-are/
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Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are

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Automated bots outperform humans in online Captcha tests, found researchers at the University of California, Irvine. Their study of popular websites with Captcha tests showed bots were faster and achieved higher accuracy (85% to 100%) than humans (50% to 85%).  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2384228-bots-are-better-at-beating-are-you-a-robot-tests-than-humans-are/ #Artificial Intelligence

Sam Mendoza

Speed and accuracy aren’t the point.  It’s actually the opposite.  

https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/why-cant-robots-click-the-i-m-not-a-robot-box-on-websites-370f239ba7f4

Speed and accuracy aren’t the point.  It’s actually the opposite.    https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/why-cant-robots-click-the-i-m-not-a-robot-box-on-websites-370f239ba7f4

Clicking a tiny box tells Google all they need to know about your humanity

Why Can’t Robots Click The “I’m Not a Robot” Box On Websites?

Stop with robodiscrimination they're robopeople too 🤖 
#DANK MEMES 
#Cyanide & Happiness

DANK MEMES

Cyanide & Happiness

Stop with robodiscrimination they're robopeople too 🤖  #DANK MEMES  #Cyanide & Happiness

Nate

Anything that these systems use to try to differentiate between humans and bots can be faked by a bot. Anything you think of, including human weaknesses, can be faked by a bot. There is absolutely no way around this.

Maybe current implementations don't do some of this faking. That's because they don't need to. The moment they need to, they will be made to.

The enterprise of making a website try to weed out bots is fundamentally misguided. It can't be done. That ship has sailed. Give it up.

I can hear the objections already...we just need a webcam so you can see the user's face, watch them type it! We just need a secure key based mechanism that gives the website some kind of superior access to the end-users hardware, to make sure a human is using it and not a program! We just need some more laws!

It's folly. None of these will work. Nothing you can think of will work. We are in the AI age now. We cannot put that genie back into the bottle, and we cannot make websites determine when they are being accessed by a bot instead of a human. We must adapt our designs such that it simply doesn't matter if a bot is doing the work. We must build a world that tolerates bots, and still functions well enough. That's the shape of things to come.

Anything that these systems use to try to differentiate between humans and bots can be faked by a bot. Anything you think of, including human weaknesses, can be faked by a bot. There is absolutely no way around this.  Maybe current implementations don't do some of this faking. That's because they don't need to. The moment they need to, they will be made to.  The enterprise of making a website try to weed out bots is fundamentally misguided. It can't be done. That ship has sailed. Give it up.  I can hear the objections already...we just need a webcam so you can see the user's face, watch them type it! We just need a secure key based mechanism that gives the website some kind of superior access to the end-users hardware, to make sure a human is using it and not a program! We just need some more laws!  It's folly. None of these will work. Nothing you can think of will work. We are in the AI age now. We cannot put that genie back into the bottle, and we cannot make websites determine when they are being accessed by a bot instead of a human. We must adapt our designs such that it simply doesn't matter if a bot is doing the work. We must build a world that tolerates bots, and still functions well enough. That's the shape of things to come.

That‘s literally how reCaptcha and hCaptcha work. The choose all pictures containing traffic lights is just you providing data for them to train their ML model. The actual captcha involves looking at how long it takes you to choose them, along with various other metrics.

Todd Smith

This presents an opportunity: simply reverse the polarity on the test result.

If you solve it quickly and correctly, you are a bot. If you struggle and fail, come right in!

This presents an opportunity: simply reverse the polarity on the test result.  If you solve it quickly and correctly, you are a bot. If you struggle and fail, come right in!

Sam Mendoza

A group of likeminded people in Artificial Intelligence are talking about this.