New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth
  • profdc9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    Everyone knows that the real purpose of CAPTCHA tests are to train computers to replace us.

    • hex@programming.devEnglish
      261·
      2 years ago

      This but unironically… The purpose literally is to train computers to get better at recognising things

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 years ago

      And also to frustrate people who use anonimization techniques including use of the Tor Network to get them to turn off their protections to be more easily fingerprinted.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      The funniest part of that is the people designing the AI systems seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that they’re slowly but surely trying to eliminate their own species. ☹️

      • sheogorath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

  • superkret@feddit.deEnglish
    35·
    2 years ago

    online study
    not peer reviewed
    “published” on arxiv (which is a public document server, not a journal)
    study and authors not named or linked in the article

    tl/dr: “Someone uploaded a pdf and we’re writing about it.”

    • Zeth0s@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      2 years ago

      You are overrating peer reviewing. It’s basically a tool to help editors to understand if a paper “sells”, to improve readability and to discard clear garbage.

      If methodologies are not extremely flawed, peer reviewing almost never impact quality of the results, as reviewers do not redo the work. From the “trustworthy” point of view, peer reviewing is comparable to a biased rng. Google for actual reproducibility of published experiments and peer-reviewing biases for more details

      Preprints are fine, just less polished

  • tacosplease@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    Just encountered a captcha yesterday that I had to refresh several times and then listen to the audio playback. The letters were so obscured by a black grid that it was impossible to read them.

  • C4d@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I thought Captcha tests were being used to train image recognition systems no?

    • Odelay42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Yes, but that’s more of a side quest for the system. Primary use case has always been security.