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HBO Max new Captcha system
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#62This is Arkose MatchKey. Hopefully, they will one day fix the UI covering the images. https://www.arkoselabs.com/arkose-matchkey/
The entire site is an exercise in delusion and marketing bullshit. I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people. Some other choice quotes from the page: > Users have a bad association with difficult photo CAPTCHAs. > Instead of type what you hear (or alphanumerics) puzzles, we ask users simple questi…
The ChatGPT app uses this. The puzzle I got involved moving a train, it was super confusing and ridiculous. I was imagining a non-technical user doing these, and my god. No chance.
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#63I see stuff like this and immediately think "the team responsible, in its entirety, should be fired." Zero conscious thought occurred during the entire lifecycle of this feature being implemented.
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#64GitHub also has dice captchas. I remember one day in class we were doing a group project and using GitHub to share our work, and a friend of mine had trouble to log into his GitHub account and got this captcha. A team of 4 people in the class went to help him pass the (if I remember correctly) 10 tries you needed to have correct in order to log in. And they still took about 10 minutes!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Inverse captcha: Fill out the tax form for the country from the connecting IP. If you can do it, you're an AI.
Inverse captchas or honeypots are a great idea. Just make a HTML input box with id=captcha, and hide it in some unconventional way in CSS so real users do not see it. If a bot was not deterred by seeing a captcha (a possibility), they would probably fill it. Whereas a real user won't.
Most bot creators check the target to compose steps before writing scripts so if they dont encounter captchas then there wont be a captcha handler
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#66I experienced the HBO Max captchas just a few days ago. Everyone did since they launched a new app and made everyone switch to that and re-login. Some of the solutions are clearly just wrong. I have a PhD in Computer Science and if I am failing multiple basic addition problems, I assure you that it isn't me, the answers are wrong. I had to do the same audio puzzles and got the first audio puzzle wrong too, and I even…
The answers being wrong hits google captcha as well. Having a computer tell me I had to call a mailbox a parking meter is right out of some sort of Forbin Project 1984 mashup. https://imgur.com/a/lcYR8n0
Was it really wrong or was Google trying to get more 'work' out of you?
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#67This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
The same happened already with passwords https://xkcd.com/936/
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The entire site is an exercise in delusion and marketing bullshit. I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people. Some other choice quotes from the page: > Users have a bad association with difficult photo CAPTCHAs. > Instead of type what you hear (or alphanumerics) puzzles, we ask users simple questi…
The ChatGPT app uses this. The puzzle I got involved moving a train, it was super confusing and ridiculous. I was imagining a non-technical user doing these, and my god. No chance.
Non technical people struggle with these alot.
My mum regularly asks for help when all she's done is ignore the captcha thinking it's an advert because it stands out like a Google ad (different UI, different font, extra branding etc).
At least she's learnt to automatically ignore ads, but it comes with consequence of ignoring captchas as well...
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#69This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
>provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human.
Or an AI using a human's ID?
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#70This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
You might start here:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=capt...