[Screenshot of a captcha asking to select all animals heavier than a jungle cat mouse of some kind. Pictures to select include elephants, ladybugs, ants with hats, and computer mouses]

Have they added AI slop to captchas now??

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    10·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve actually been fine with this one, I can always pass it just fine. Google often has me re-do them or do multiple. Cloudflare doesn’t let me in if my network is too slow (say throttled to 256kbps). But anyway, a lot of websites are broken with CF because while I can get to the website after passing captcha, their CDN still blocks me anyway. So I just get a partial website with no images where certain things don’t work.

  • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    23 hours ago

    They might be generated for the purpose of creating adversarial images that appear relatively normal to a human but confuse AI image recognition. You can see an additional layer of weird patterns on top of them too.

    IMO this is not a particularly annoying captcha though. I’ve had some where the text instructions are so indirect and strangely phrased that it’s not even clear what you’re supposed to do.

  • Seaguy05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    13 hours ago

    I’m not gonna lie, I see some effectiveness considering the ai summary called the mouse a jungle cat.

    Edit: op needs glasses and it wasn’t an ai summary.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      No, you can’t blame that one on AI, that’s all in my lack of great vision/not caring enough to zoom in.

    • phaedrus@piefed.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      I’m not sure that was an AI summary, I think that is OP that wrote that. I don’t see anything about a jungle cat in the actual screenshot.

  • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    the worst imo is the one where they ask you to select which stack has the given number of rocks; you have to go through a bunch of images to find that stack.

    then, you have to do it like five+ times, and if you fail you have to restart.

  • wander1236@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Conceptually these are really interesting and I don’t really know enough about how LLMs work to know how to feel about them. It’s a neat approach to avoiding the issue where LLMs are really good at pattern recognition and a use-case where on-demand image generation actually makes sense to me. It just all comes down to whether or not bots can easily solve it.