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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's more of a side quest for the system. Primary use case has always been security.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe. Or maybe it was always about using millions of hours of free labor to tune their algorithms and "bot detection" was just how they marketed it to the people that added it to their sites. Makes me wonder who was running the bots that needed to be protected against. Exacerbate the problem then solve the problem and get what you really want.