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CAPTCHA Bot

Training a Computer to solve Confident CAPTCHAs

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What is the Purpose of a CAPTCHA?

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The Purpose

  • CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
  • Prevents Spam Bots

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Can a bot be trained to solve CAPTCHAs easily?

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The Question

With the advent of machine learning and AIs, is it now easy to solve confident CAPTCHAs?

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CAPTCHA Solving AI

Can identify store-fronts from other images

https://cloud.google.com/automl/ui/vision

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99.8%

The Accuracy of the AI

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What Should We Use Then?

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The Implications

  • The Confident CAPTCHA, is not safe.
  • There are other more effective types of CAPTCHAs we can use:
    • Honey-Pot
    • Invisible reCAPTCHA