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An AI CAPTCHA solver talked itself out of the right answer

Researchers at Bern University of Applied Sciences developed a script that solves a circular image CAPTCHA in 0.006 seconds, demonstrating the vulnerability of such puzzles to automated AI. The solver, which uses computer vision techniques, highlights the ongoing challenge of CAPTCHA security against advanced AI systems.

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You have probably spent a few seconds of your life turning a picture until it lines up. Some sites, instead of asking you to tick a box, show you a circular chunk of a photo that has been spun around, and you drag it until the inside matches the ring around it. Simple enough. Annoying enough. Two researchers at Bern University of Applied Sciences wrote a script that solves one of those in 0.006 seconds. … More

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