• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    This has always been the way captchas work, I guess they’re expanding it to be always-on.

    • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      my understanding is Google’s recaptcha has been doing this sort of thing forever, tracking mouse movements (as well as browser fingerprinting, IP address, and probably a million other tracking methods) to score a client as more or less likely to be human, and it’s only when it’s suspicious that it escalates to “pick the images that contain x”

      • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world
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        I always thought the pick the images was just an excuse to get training data because it’s never “choose images that contain a bear frolicking in a meadow” it’s always “choose images of motorcycles, busses” or “locate the Abram’s tank hidden in the tree line”.