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Are captchas enough to stop bots? (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 month ago by Live_Let_Live to c/fediverse

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To expand on what others here have said: no they can't, and there was a recent article here on Lenny taking about how AI (which I know is different from average bots) has figured out most of the visual captcha types.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

there was a recent article here on Lenny taking about how AI

Funny you'd mention Lenny, he's also a bot! A good one though!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_(bot)

https://www.lennytroll.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k