But by 2014, bots were better at solving the puzzles than humans. Bunch of Squares īack in the day, CAPTCHAs could fool algorithms by asking users to interpret distorted fields of text. That's the conclusion of a fascinating new story in The Verge, which traces the history of CAPTCHAs - and finds that, basically, it's just getting harder and harder to tell humans and artificial intelligence apart. Sauces: ['$1', '$1', '$1', '#$1', '#$1', '#$1', '#$2', '# uploaders:', '#$2 text:Upload to imgur', '#$2 text:Upload to omploader', '# "View Same" in archives:', '#$3/ text:View same on moe', '# you feel like it's getting harder to solve CAPTCHAs - which stands for the mouthful "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart," but which you probably know as the squiggly text or image identification puzzles websites use to weed out bots - you're right. * Your posts to add (You) backlinks to */ Var $, $$, AlwaysHTTPS, Anonymize, ArchiveLink, AutoGif, Build, CatalogLinks, Conf, Config, DeleteLink, DownloadLink, ExpandComment, ExpandThread, Favicon, FileInfo, Filter, Get, ImageExpand, ImageHover, Keybinds, Main, Menu, Nav, Options, QR, QuoteBacklink, QuoteCT, QuoteInline, QuoteOP, QuoteYou, QuotePreview, Quotify, Redirect, RelativeDates, RemoveSlug, ReplaceJpg, ReplacePng, ReplyHiding, ReportLink, RevealSpoilers, Sauce, StrikethroughQuotes, ThreadHiding, ThreadStats, Time, TitlePost, UI, Unread, Updater, Watcher, d, g, _base, CaptchaIsSetup * All the people who've taken the time to write bug reports. * btmcsweeney - allow users to specify text for sauce links * Zixaphir - fix qr textarea - captcha-image gap * ahodesuka - scroll back when unexpanding images, file info formatting * seaweed - bottom padding for image hover * 4chan X is written in CoffeeScript, and developed on GitHub. * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING * HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT * OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
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