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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
Whenever I want to revel in human superiority over machines, I remember that no artificial intelligence yet design can read handwriting, or even, for that matter, those bendy letters and numbers that sites put up to protect themselves from bot intruders.
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There's an arms-race going between CAPTCHA designers and designers of OCR software to break it.
It looks like the current state is that if a human gets it right every time, the machine can break it.
To avoid automated bypassing, they currently have to make the text so hard to read that
I fail half the time.
Don't stop to pat your back too much, the machines are not far behind you.
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