I understood the purpose of CAPTCHAs was noble and made the internet a better experience, through reducing spam and preventing bots from buying up all the concert tickets, for instance. So I decided to introduce a challenge for myself: refuse to complete CAPTCHAs, in a refusal to prove my humanity to a computer. Why should I be singled out, when I’m sitting right here, flesh and blood? This feeling has made me more protective of my sense of humanity, and less willing to prove it to Google every time I want to log in. I can foresee a near future where AI will be able to do everything that we can online – a feeling echoed by another creator of CAPTCHA, Luis von Anh. However, reading about the recent advances of AI – from making art to writing poetry – I have become increasingly irked (insulted, even) by these tests that purport to divide the human from the bot. It seems one can’t go a day on the internet without needing to solve one. Instead of disappearing, CAPTCHAs have instead gotten more complex and more prevalent. “I kind of expected machine learning to eventually succeed in making CAPTCHAs not a thing,” he told me in an interview. But the computer scientist John Langford, who helped create CAPTCHA twenty years ago when he was a graduate student, is surprised they have lasted as long as they have.
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