Captchas like googles older “what are these two words” and “select the traffic lights” are just ways for google to get the public to provide label data for their AI tools anyway
immediately followed by the rollout of Google Self-Driving Car
ProjectBusiness -Waymothey were; they’re not needed anymore. I trained a few ML models myself and I guarantee they had more than enough data to overfit by the first few months these captchas collected data. A paper from 2019 already showed a success rate of 97% (iirc) of automated models trying to solve these captchas, and trained on much less data. With all the data they collect you can be sure they don’t need any more of it for several years now.
If you use a vpn, private browsing, and/or adblockers some sites will actually gaslight you by telling you that your response was incorrect.
Any CAPTCA that can’t be cracked by a computer can be cracked by shoving it in front of a porn video and someone will solve it for you before it times out.
