← Back to context Comment by setopt 1 day ago How long until we have to solve a captcha per message to counter that? 4 comments setopt Reply AlexandrB 21 hours ago Are captchas still effective against modern LLMs? PunchyHamster 21 hours ago They are if your goal is to burn their GPU time but instead of hundred requests a second you're busy solving captchas gowld 20 hours ago Claude can burn tokens solving the captcha for me. Double the effect. verve_rat 21 hours ago For this use case it matters a lot less if LLMs can solve it. As long as it costs you more to solve the captcha than it costs your adversary to serve it to you, it is still (some what) effective.
AlexandrB 21 hours ago Are captchas still effective against modern LLMs? PunchyHamster 21 hours ago They are if your goal is to burn their GPU time but instead of hundred requests a second you're busy solving captchas gowld 20 hours ago Claude can burn tokens solving the captcha for me. Double the effect. verve_rat 21 hours ago For this use case it matters a lot less if LLMs can solve it. As long as it costs you more to solve the captcha than it costs your adversary to serve it to you, it is still (some what) effective.
PunchyHamster 21 hours ago They are if your goal is to burn their GPU time but instead of hundred requests a second you're busy solving captchas gowld 20 hours ago Claude can burn tokens solving the captcha for me. Double the effect.
verve_rat 21 hours ago For this use case it matters a lot less if LLMs can solve it. As long as it costs you more to solve the captcha than it costs your adversary to serve it to you, it is still (some what) effective.
Are captchas still effective against modern LLMs?
They are if your goal is to burn their GPU time but instead of hundred requests a second you're busy solving captchas
Claude can burn tokens solving the captcha for me. Double the effect.
For this use case it matters a lot less if LLMs can solve it. As long as it costs you more to solve the captcha than it costs your adversary to serve it to you, it is still (some what) effective.