AI vs. CAPTCHA: The New Arms Race...?

[Crossbreed]

How To Fight the Ongoing Battle Between AI and CAPTCHA - Checkmarx

 

[Tuffsy]

Usabilty vs security is always a problem. I like the one that TikTok uses where you have to rotate the inside of a picture to make it correct. I didn't read if that one can be broken by AI.

 

[Judge]

CAPTCHA IMO fails miserably in terms of usability. When a single or few pixels may determine whether a user has perceived the right answer, only to fail repeatedly over what appeared to be the correct response.

Living many users in a less-than-happy mood when they finally reach the URL they intended.

I don't care what technology is employed to restrict access to sentient users, but they have to get it right once and for all.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

CAPTCHA IMO fails miserably in terms of usability. When a single or few pixels may determine whether a user has perceived the right answer, only to fail repeatedly over what appeared to be the correct response.

Living many users in a less-than-happy mood when they finally reach the URL they intended.

I don't care what technology is employed to restrict access to sentient users, but they have to get it right once and for all.

I definitely have trouble with the “select all the squares with a motorcycle” type captchas, wondering if that bit of dark is part of a tire or just a shadow or artifact.

 

[Hypnalis]

CAPTCHA IMO fails miserably in terms of usability. When a single or few pixels may determine whether a user has perceived the right answer, only to fail repeatedly over what appeared to be the correct response.

Living many users in a less-than-happy mood when they finally reach the URL they intended.

I don't care what technology is employed to restrict access to sentient users, but they have to get it right once and for all.

You're right OFC, but IMO it's a case of "be careful what you wish for".

The only real solution is a suitable ID that can't be faked. Theoretically this could be done anonymously if there was an Internet-wide trusted party.

But no Government or sufficiently large organization can be trusted not to misuse personal data, so we'd almost certainly finish up with something functionally equivalent to personal digital IDs.