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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It absolutely can because at least the current version is a Mechanical Turk. The human operating it would just solve the captcha.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Can the human identify the parts with the bicycle in it for me? I'd have to thoroughly consider whether that might be worth 20k.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

There are actually services for that, so companies can retrieve websites automatically when they can't: https://2captcha.com/ https://anti-captcha.com/

This came up at work a few times, but in the end it was cheaper to ask the site owner for a data export 🤷

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

You can't even get past that part? You should see the later levels!

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dose this include when someone bangs the robot?

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Especially then.

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

AI right now is actually not bad at solving captchas now

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The new VLMs are much better at solving captchas than I am. Especially the older ones with the squiggly text, no way I'm doing those first try.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Visual Language Models, like LLMs but they read images and text.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

They call them vlommels.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's what I use it for at work in an Indian callcenter.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“Why did we give the robot sweat glands again?”

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's evolutionary!

[–] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Can it file a tax return? I'll take five.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

First day on the job be like