• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      And bicycles.

      Tin foil hat theory: the oil lobby loves encouraging the use of bicycles for captchas because no matter what, there’s always part of the rim of the grainy ass photo just barely sticking into the other square, making you keep locating the fucking bicycles for hours on end, with the hopes that you absolutely hate the sight of them after you’ve developed PTSD from just trying to visit a stupid website to read something. God damn fucking bicycle captchas.

  • BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net
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    3 months ago

    I’m pretty sure that’s always what capchas were for… training ai image recognition.

    They just also use it as security theater.

    • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Not these ones. They’re automatically generated so the computer that creates them will already know what the string is meant to be. You don’t need human annotations to use these kinds of capcha as training days.

      This is just a road block. They’re designed to inconvenience spammers so you get less spam to delete.

        • Muscar@discuss.online
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          3 months ago

          Less effective in what way? The actual answer is their use for training AI isn’t as good, but that’s not what I think you (or most other people) mean. The main use of them is to train AI via humans, the security is secondary and just a smart way to get free work.

        • x_cell@slrpnk.net
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          3 months ago

          Probably? I’m no expert but I always answer with just lower case without issue

      • Nougat@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        Depends. I know that Microsoft changed to non-case sensitive not terribly long ago (for things like testexchangeconnectivity).

  • Fern@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This came out a few months ago, right? A bit after chat gpt was tricking people into doing captchas for it.