What's with all these bots in the last few hours?

[Bitblazer]

since this is the off topic forum and the talk is about bots ....

my favorite forum protecting captcha story still was an AI being told to make a posting and when the AI was unable to solve the captcha (some months ago!) it did create a social media account on another platform and asked humans to help because of the bot "having really bad eyesight and being unable to decipher that captcha"

Ofc. some kind human soon helped

[jacdelad]

Must be an outdated AI. I just read an article about new bots being able to solve captchas faster and with more accuracy than average humans.

[tj1010]

Must be an outdated AI. I just read an article about new bots being able to solve captchas faster and with more accuracy than average humans.

Half the time it's not AI it's a rate-priced solving service.. They've been around for over a decade. There are some that even use GPT workers as solvers...

A neural net would be expensive to train; especially for relatively low traffic/profit domains with custom solutions.... Unless we are suggesting general AI exists... If so why is it spamming the internet with consumer garbage, or why would it's designers be doing internet spam?

The only reason not to quickly solve the bot problem is purely end-user convenience...

[jacdelad]

I know what you mean, but the experiment was done with real bots, not a service or something:
https://www.heise.de/news/Fast-immer-sc ... 40739.html
It's a reputable source (unfortunately just in German) and as I said, I read it yesterday (the article was released 2 days ago). FutureZone even published it 4 days ago.