Ask HN: Are the days of CAPTCHAs coming to an end? With various new models hitting human-level performance on certain tasks, are the days of protecting a website with CAPTCHAs numbered? What will this new world look like? |
Ask HN: Are the days of CAPTCHAs coming to an end? With various new models hitting human-level performance on certain tasks, are the days of protecting a website with CAPTCHAs numbered? What will this new world look like? |
That is provided, of course that, people actually care about bots, large companies might well not, as bots drive up user counts. With increasingly more human like bots, it will be increasingly difficult to determine just how bad it is. An internet full of bots might be a conspiracy theory now (Dead internet theory), but is quickly becoming plausible.