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As I have been testing sites, I have found reCAPTCHAs getting more and more difficult to read. Is it just me or are others having this problem too?
Along with this, I had a user this morning complain about receiving a Bristish Pound character in their reCAPTCHA. Of course the user didn't know what to do, even though I have message stating they can click the reload/refresh icon to get a new CAPTCHA.
Unfortunately, this implementation is on a site often used by people over 60 years of age, so more complicated or confusing CAPTCHAs are a problem, but the site still receives a lot of people attempting to produce spam.
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A captcha is a simple test that intends to distinguish between humans and computers. While the test itself is simple, there's a lot happening behind the scenes. The answers we give captchas end up being used to make AI smarter, thus ratcheting up the difficulty of future captcha tests.
Just ask Google: Some captchas have been solved with more than 90% accuracy by scientists specializing in computer vision research at the University of California, Berkeley, and elsewhere. Hobbyists also regularly write code to solve captchas on commercial sites with a high degree of accuracy.
The main reason CAPTCHAs can be so tough is through necessity. As CAPTCHAs have evolved, so too have attackers. Artificial intelligence (AI) can read even particularly distorted text with an estimated 99 percent accuracy. CAPTCHAs have had to up their game.
In the future, end users will be accustomed to life without CAPTCHA. Detection technologies will improve to the point that we can detect whether users are a bot or not without having any user interruption at all. E-commerce websites are typically the most common use case for CAPTCHA solvers.
Despite the opinions presented until now I actually like the reCAPTCHA system. I like it mostly because I consider that it manages to solve two problems at once: verifying human identity and help digitalizes writings (For those of you who don't know here is why it uses 2 words and not one : reCAPTCHA philosophy
So I encourage all of you to try passing the reCAPTCHA tests as often as you can because you are really helping a good cause.
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