Most frustrating one I came across recently was between the shopping cart and the payment screens. Are you fucking kidding me? I want to give you my money. I’m about to pay you. That’s why you exist. And you put three fucking captchas between me and the “buy” button? Fuck you.
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artyom@piefed.social 11 hours ago
I get it, but most of these sites are trying to protect from malicious AI bots that are scraping the web and DDoS’ing them to death.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
artyom@piefed.social 2 hours ago
You mean Epic?
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
No, plumbing supplies of all ridiculous things.
Uniquitous@beehaw.org 9 hours ago
I mean, be that as it may, they’re doing it by making their site a bad user experience. I didn’t come to whichever site to play stupid tile games (unless it’s stupid.tilegames.com) so it’s just immediately irritating.
artyom@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I’m sure it is. The alternative is that the site doesn’t exist at all.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 9 hours ago
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Or they could use a modern tool like Anubis. Captchas are a very outdated method of bot detection atp
artyom@piefed.social 7 hours ago
See my response to the last person who posted this.
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dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 10 hours ago
most captcha-like prompts are used for training AI
artyom@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Also true.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 10 hours ago
Eventually LLMs will also evade those captchas, if not already.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
That’s one of the fun things about AI model collapse. The AIs will start polluting their own training data (already have, actually) and the more prolific AI gets the stupider their training will become, and it will never get better again, it will just eventually reach a steady state of some stupid AI creating training data just barely non-stupid enough data to be believable to the other stupid AI deciding whether it’s valid training data, which makes them both slightly stupider until it can’t create non-stupid enough training data anymore, at which point the data quality will start to improve marginally due to the increased proportion of human efforts, and then the cycle will repeat, endlessly. There is no way out of an AI polluted training data set except by adding more real human data. Arguably we’ve already hit peak AI because of this, and this is where it’s plateaued and where it will likely stay once the bubble pops, with only slight incremental progress from then onwards. It’s probably not going to be taking over the world anytime soon. It’s a reflection of our own collective creativity and effort. It’s a confusing, byzantine, hall of mirrors reflection, sometimes funny-shaped reflection, sometimes a scary reflection, but it’s always ultimately a reflection. It’s not intelligence. It’s just ourselves.