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Comment by AdieuToLogic

20 hours ago

> I would challenge you to find a picture of text that you think a human can read and OCR cannot.

Are you aware of CAPTCHA[0] images?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

Text that is _intentionally constructed_ to fool computers but not humans is obviously out of scope. But they’re generally easily solved with OCR these days anyway.

Solvable with the right tools.

https://github.com/noCaptchaAi/NoCaptcha-Ai-Browser-Extensio...

  • > Solvable with the right tools.

    The original assertion was:

      I would challenge you to find a picture of text
      that you think a human can read and OCR cannot.
    

    Not if many CAPTCHA image challenges could be automated. Unless the tool referenced guarantees 100% correct solutions for all manipulated text images.

    • The AI models are now better at CAPTCHAs than I am, for both text- and image-based questions. But when confronted with a CAPTCHA, humans work for free, and the models don't. :(

      As long as that's the case, CAPTCHAs probably won't be considered truly obsolete.