Makes sense.

1. Google's "anti bot" verification has long been considered woefully inadequate.
2. It works largely by tracking how long the user takes to click on it.
3. LLMs are inherently fuzzy and for a bot, incredibly slow.

Meanwhile google slapped me with nine captchas to fill out a form like wtf?

Meanwhile my ass is in tears every time I have to do a fucking "click all the squares that show a motorcycle" prompt. Maybe I should just join the bots.

Prowlarr has had a thing to do this for a good while now. No AI needed.

There was a really interesting video (can't remember the title) that went into Google's captcha specifically, and found that it really isn't designed to detect bots. It's designed to detect a unique digital fingerprint that can be used by advertisers.

So, you can use a really simple mouse script to click the checkbox automatically with no issue, but as soon as you use a VPN you get served with the photo games. It doesn't care if you're a robot, it cares if you're a valuable ad target.

The CAPTCHA is question is Cloudflare Turnstile, which slowly ramps up a different assortment of invisible challenges while not tracking your mouse movement or cross-site activity.

If a bot can find all images with crosswalks in grainy photos faster than we can, surely it can check a box as well. Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement while doing so. For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser.

Probably because it accessed it through a user's browser/connection which until that point hadn't been flagged as a bot and had consistently shown signs of human use.

I'm sure if you set up a bot farm with this your connections would be flagged very quickly.

Wow, agents built to monitor and reflect human behaviour, accurately model and reproduce human behaviour.

This is what is what shits me off when people complain "Oh this AI isn't real AI" or "This isn't consciousness" The limiting factor is is the training data. Humans have just had a few more million years of training data passed on through genetics. It's replication and fakery all the way down. If this is you, if you fucking need the reassurance that you are better at being fucking conscious compare to a machine fuck the fuck right off and go do something amazing with it then. Compose something. Create something. Feel the wind in your hair and the sand at your feet. Fuck off, we're all dirt.

It also casually fails at understanding pointer ownership as I learned today.

I don't know much about tech but, is it a bot? I'm not sure I grasp the difference between a program and a bot

I'm not a lawyer, but, if this doesn't break anti-circumvention laws everywhere, they need to be rewriten ASAP.

No shit...

If there's a test that proves someone isn't a bot, everyone will train bots to beat it.

It's basically the same principle that gave us LLMs in the first place, everyone focused on beating the Turing test.

If we said what separated man from bot was hopping on one leg while putting your head and rubbing your tummy, and bits could do it in a decade or two.

Whatever you say the line is, is what everyone focuses on. That's why the line constantly moves, it's not moving further away, it's like a circle getting a larger radius. Push one side, and you got to push the other.