Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds
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I thought Captcha tests were being used to train image recognition systems no?

Yes, but that's more of a side quest for the system. Primary use case has always been security.

Maybe. Or maybe it was always about using millions of hours of free labor to tune their algorithms and "bot detection" was just how they marketed it to the people that added it to their sites. Makes me wonder who was running the bots that needed to be protected against. Exacerbate the problem then solve the problem and get what you really want.