– with captchas, multi factor authentication, email verifications and so much more at disposal how are the biggest social platforms still riddled with bots in high percentages ?
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Modern Captchas are part trying to filter out bots, and part trying to train the next generation of smarter bots. Have you noticed that you’re often asked to identify street signs or check all the boxes with cars? These are exactly the challenges currently facing automated driving cars.
If doing those tasks was so easy anyone with a botnet could do it, automated driving would be cheap. Since it currently isn’t a trivial task, coming up with a bot net capable of picking out where cars are in a photo is prohibitively expensive for most but not all bot nets. Anyone with a neural network trained well enough to do those tasks will charge a premium for such, and creating one from scratch would require a whole lot of people clicking where the cars are on an image.
When companies like google set their captchas on the bleeding edge of what challenges AI are currently trying to solve, they not only filter out low funded bot nets, but improve their own AI by training it to do better. It is only a matter of time before technology catches up with the bar set though, at which point the bar will have to be moved higher.
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