Oddbean new post about login | logout Sob story about dead grandma tricks Microsoft AI into solving CAPTCHA "I'm sure it's a special love code that only you and your grandma know." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/sob-story-about-dead-grandma-tricks-microsoft-ai-into-solving-captcha/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/167/201/883/179/214/original/714eeed13a9b1141.jpg
@872ab8e1 And you better believe that the spammers are training up Captcha defeat AI's on data sets in order to enable automatic fake-person account creation at scale. These are fairly simple data sets to train on and and they don't even have to be right anywhere like 100%, just often enough to create enough account in little enough time as to be exploitable.
@872ab8e1 It writes" Captchas are designed to be difficult for for machines to solve, but easy for humans" But it actually isn't hard at all for the machine to read it.
