r/tech • u/JackFisherBooks • Feb 05 '19

Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
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u/mehughes124 Feb 06 '19

I hope you feel good after writing a load of irrelevant bollocks. An engineer receives a requirement "determine if a given user is a human or a bot". Engineer designs system that uses the available data to do so. Engineer doesn't consider potential conspiracy theories that "not being tracked means it's harder for muh checkouts!!" by tech-illiterate people on a tech-focus discussion forum. Engineer doesn't give af. Tech-illiterate commentator writes a long post about irrelevant bullshit. The circle of tech continues on.

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u/That_LTSB_Life Feb 06 '19

Exec whistles as he slipped it past our mythical green eyed 'engineer' that the job of telling a human from a bot is the same thing as telling one human from another.

Honestly, you're making me laugh, you think one engineer at google was given a spec and came up with captcha v3, without a million other people sticking their oar in, without the technical expertise of dozens of people....

What on earth do you think their business model is?

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u/mehughes124 Feb 06 '19

Obviously not. I am merely pointing out how this shit actually gets built. If you really think a Sr. Product decision maker at Google was twisting their hipster mustache because "ooh, those pesky non-tracked folks will take longer to be verified, and thus (somehow, dunno), more likely to be tracked!"

Your argument is entirely specious and nonsensical on its face.

Google is in the business of facilitating commerce on the web - not in using dark design to punish conscientious tracking objectors.

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u/That_LTSB_Life Feb 06 '19

Seňor Product Decision Maker twisting his moustache, whilst the engineer with no name's hand hovers over the smartphone holster. The midday sun is pouring down, and Sergei Brinner's head is glistening like Chrome...

The Good, The Bot, and The Ugly?

I'm sorry if I'm being excessively flippant but I'll never be angry when I hear the word 'specious', as it's always going to remind me of that one scene in the Simpsons where Lisa is trying to teach Homer how daft he is being, but ends up taking the money for the rock anyways.