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Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked
MoonUnit writes "Technology Review has an interesting article about the way CAPTCHAS are fueling AI research. Following recent news about various textual CAPTCHAs being cracked, the article notes that a researcher at Palo Alto Research Center has now found a way crack photo-based CAPTCHAs too. Most approaches are based on statistical learning, however, so Luis von Ahn (one of the inventors of the CAPTCHA) says it is usually possible to make a CAPTCHA more difficult to break by making a few simple changes."
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So you are worse at proving that you're human than at least a few computer programs.
I'd say it says something about you, but the sad thing is, it doesn't. In fact I know few people over 55, or under 16 or-so* that are even capable of proving they're human. Soon we will all be worse than computer programs in proving that we're human ...
* I mean average people. Sure, geeks have little issues
Heh, should give "astroturfing" a totally new dimension. I see the academics salivating at their newfound "influence". Being able to drown out real humans in any debate will certainly not improve webboards. I mean, say "bushitler", or "islam is peace", is a stupid meme now, believed only by idiots, but some don't let that deter them in pushing it. What if they push it with computer programs 10000-programs-to-1-human ?
Do we start botwars ? I remember those from irc, and they drown out real conversation even more, reacting to eachother.
At the very least they kill the option of accepting new members into a channel/forum/community.
And never mind what will happen once these bots walk around and look like this. "Too ghastly to think about".
Heh, at least then we can all have "suicide bombers"**, without that tedious convincing unrealistically gullible idiots or the kidnapping extortions business that seems to be required today.
** actually muslims once comitted a "suicide bombing" campaign in Thailand using RC cars (just strap some dynamite and ball bearings on top of that in them, then get very close), while that's RC, not robotics, it would not be the fist "robotic" attack. That one attack failed, but was already very, very troubling. Another muslim was arrested in the U.S. for developing a suicide UAV bomber. Wonder what the future holds ! I can't wait.
How does it feel being a corner case?