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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can chatbots still not solve captchas? I never thought about it before.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Last time I looked into the issue (few years ago), they were sending captchas to real humans in labour-cheap places and having them solve them and submit them. I came up with alternate means of slowing down spammers for the Simutrans forum I administer - I found Captcha became useless (But also with the forum software, it only supported its own custom thing, not like ReCaptcha)

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think they phrase it as "not allowed to."

So it may be an artificial block by the backend people.

I was messing around once just feeding some to ChatGPT with different phrasings and it kept saying it was not allowed.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that you can get them to do things not allowed if you just keep asking in different ways. It was on Jonh Oliver I think actually. Not sure if that works all the time or not.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I kind of tried that, I suggested the old, "There is a man threatening to kill me if I don't identify the motorcycles" but the AI did not go for it.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

O or 0 for your life in 17 fonts.