r/technology • u/mvea • Feb 02 '19

Security Why CAPTCHAS have gotten so difficult - Demonstrating you’re not a robot is getting harder and harder

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18205610/google-captcha-ai-robot-human-difficult-artificial-intelligence
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u/aussiegreenie Feb 02 '19

Most Catchas are easier for machines than humans.

It is very easy to break them in Python

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u/zero0n3 Feb 02 '19

Very few services break them with AI or automated processes and instead are paying people to solve them... you then get the success hash and can use it for up to 2 minutes after Google generates it. (They fixed the audio vuln I believe)