Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them

Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do them wrong and then close out

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  • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do it right and it says I’m wrong =\

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    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have bad news for you friend…

      You might be a robot

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      • hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What do you mean? I am a fleshy human and do fleshy human things like being made of flesh.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It knows they’re wrong which is why I don’t really think this article is accurate. Is it training if it already has the answers? Probably not.

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s why it gives you a panel of 9 images. It had a high confidence on some images, and a low confidence on others. When you pick the correct images and don’t pick incorrect ones it uses the ones it’s confident about as “validation” while taking the feedback on low confidence images to update the training data.

      What this means is that only ones actually being “graded” are the ones bots can solve anyway.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        and it will show the images to multiple people

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It seems exactly like that, I experimented with it by trying to leave the one I think it has low confidence unchecked, and it often worked.

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    • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My understanding is different from others here. I thought they served the same Captcha to many people at once and use the majority response to decide who is answering correctly.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s true, or at least it used to be back when they were using it for OCR. I have no reason to believe it’s changed.

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    • voxthefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s why they ask you to do multiple, 1-2 of them are the control group, they are training on the others

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’re implying they give you multiple. I hardly ever get multiple, pretty much only if I ‘fail’ the first one.

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    • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If they gave two captchas, one which they knew the answer and one which they didn’t, they could use the second for training. (Even if you’re paying someone, you want to do that sort of thing when crowdsourcing data, because you never know if the paid person is just screwing around.)

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• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I haven’t done an image one in years for the same reason.

  My general internet usage has plummeted between ads and captchas and all the other modern website bullshit, which is why I am here so much.

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