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> For example, it would be interesting to incorporate Ghost Font into CAPTCHA systems, as most systems are easily solved by AI today. It seems to me like it sh
by rav 2mo ago
> For example, it would be interesting to incorporate Ghost Font into CAPTCHA systems, as most systems are easily solved by AI today.
It seems to me like it should be easy enough to take Ghost Font, apply normal video compression techniques, and analyze the compressed signal to recover the visual outline of the letters, which you would then analyze with OCR (or an AI I guess ...). In other words, a novel CAPTCHA technique but not necessarily "fundamentally more difficult" than existing CAPTCHA techniques, once the cat-and-mouse game gets going.
- xattt 2mo agoI.e. there’s an ffmpeg incantation out there to do it.
- jszymborski 2mo agoAn LLM can output it pretty quick, I imagine.
- ihsoj 2mo agoYes, it may be useful to replace current CAPTCHA, but this does not provide the positive side-effects of CAPTCHA where user-submitted data is used to train the unknown images or reinforce the labelling of existing image segments.
- beagle3 2mo agoIt’s been years since captcha was contributing to labeling.
- mort96 2mo agoIndeed, they don't contribute to labeling. The self driving companies figured out long ago that machine learning is way too expensive. Instead, Google is using its large network of willing humans to inform automated driving decisions in real time. So the next time you're asked to click the pictures with the bicycles or traffic lights? Please do so before it's too late. (/s, if that's necessary)
- fnordian_slip 2mo agoReference for today's lucky 10.000: https://xkcd.com/1897/ https://xkcd.com/1897/
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- Lerc 2mo agoI took just two screenshots and applied some filters and got https://fingswotidun.com/images/GhostFont_2_samples.jpg https://fingswotidun.com/images/GhostFont_2_samples.jpg https://fingswotidun.com/images/GhostFont_b_2_samples.jpg https://fingswotidun.com/images/GhostFont_b_2_samples.jpg An AI would be able to take consecutive frames rather than hamfistedly pressing the screenshot button, then accumulate enough samples to clearly make out the text from a clip shorter than the time it would take for a human to read it.
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- mlok 2mo ago"Written in ghost font" is the decoy message. Your filters got those words. The real message is "only a human can read this" and your filters didn't get these words. (But I think there should be a way to catch them)
- ninjalanternshk 2mo agoThat’s the only message I can see. Am I… am I an AI?