Tried to make on new account on lemmy… It did work in the end (obviously). Good thing there is the audio version to read it for me. (sarcasm, I know it’s supposed to be for accessibility purposes. Still used it though)
I had the same difficulty with Lemmy’s captchas. Took multiple attempts before I figured out the right letters. The audio description helped a lot because it calls out which letters are capitalized. I’s and l’s and 1’s should be banned from those things.
Any letters that look like another should be exempt. I’m looking at you, C c W w U u O 0 o S s Z z X x V v
It might not be long until we design the captchas so that the only ones who can get it right must be AI.
I think the CAPTCHAs have to keep getting harder and harder because the bots keep getting better and better.
It is already a lost race though.
For instance, when humans were asked to solve distorted text CAPTCHAs, they were able to solve them in 9 to 15 seconds. That sounds great until you learn that they were only able to get the answer correctly 50-84% of the time.
On the other hand, bots taking the same texts were able to answer the same tests in less than a second, and they were able to do it more accurately—99.8% accurately, specifically.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/bots-better-at-solving-captchas-than-humans
They’ve already determined that bots are better at solving Captchas than we are.
When setting this up as an admin you choose the difficulty of the captcha. Not sure what level this is.
I can never read those damn things. Maybe I’m a robot and I just don’t know it yet.
