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Why captchas are getting harder

A surprisingly interesting 8-minute explainer video on those quizzes our computers make us take to prove that we’re human. The irony of it all: While solving captchas to prove that we’re human we’re teaching computers to pretend they are human, too, which in turn renders the captchas useless. Watch it now


From Weekly Filet #348, in May 2021.

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