I don't know if it was apocryphal but the story that went around was miscreants just ran porn sites and would forward the captcha (or similar) to anyone trying to access their porn site who would solve it and the solution would be forwarded and, in. On July 1, 2025 at 15:04 nanog@lists.nanog.org (Michael Thomas via NANOG) wrote:
On 7/1/25 2:43 PM, Rich Kulawiec via NANOG wrote:
and 2023:
AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-185073435...
[2307.12108] An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108
All I have to say on this subject is that there is a certain indignity in needing to put on my fricking reading glasses to solve them. Where can I get this AI?
Mike
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