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by sedatk 1913 days ago
What’s the non-hostile alternative?
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Old-school "squiggly letters" captcha? For all the fear mongering around AI and machine learning supposedly breaking them, I'm still not aware of a general-purpose tool that would solve those out of the box without significant engineering effort.
A general purpose tool like this one? https://github.com/PatrickLib/captcha_recognize
The worry is not about ML. It's about bot farms in India/China with real people behind the wheel. That's why CAPTCHA needs to be able to evolve without maintenance from the website operator.
It’s not like Googles solution is watertight.