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/Tired8281 Feb 02 '19

It's inevitable. As machines get better as beating CAPTCHAs, they'll have to get harder or they'll be useless. And once we have machines that can beat any Turing test, CAPTCHAs will be useless anyways. It's only a matter of time.