Solution was invented long ago. It’s called a captcha.
A little bother for legitimate users, but a good captcha is still hard to bypass even using AI.
And I think for the final user standpoint I prefer to lose 5 seconds in a captcha, than the browser running an unsolicited heavy crypto challenge on my end.
For years, we’ve written that CAPTCHAs drive us crazy. Humans give up on CAPTCHA puzzles approximately 15% of the time and, maddeningly, CAPTCHAs are significantly easier for bots to solve than they are for humans.
I had to scrape a site that have some captcha and no AI was able to consistently solve it.
In order to be able to “crack it” I had to replicate the captcha generation algorithm best I could and train a custom model to solve it. Only then I could crack it open. And I was lucky the captcha generation algorithm wasn’t to complex and it was easy to replicate.
This amount of work is a far greater load than Anubis crypto challenges.
Take into account that AI drive ocr drinks from existing examples, if your captcha is novel enough they are going to have a hard time solving it.
It also would drain power, which is the only point of anubis.
Solution was invented long ago. It’s called a captcha.
A little bother for legitimate users, but a good captcha is still hard to bypass even using AI.
And I think for the final user standpoint I prefer to lose 5 seconds in a captcha, than the browser running an unsolicited heavy crypto challenge on my end.
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I hate captchas.
AI is better at solving captchas than you.
I tried, and not really.
I had to scrape a site that have some captcha and no AI was able to consistently solve it.
In order to be able to “crack it” I had to replicate the captcha generation algorithm best I could and train a custom model to solve it. Only then I could crack it open. And I was lucky the captcha generation algorithm wasn’t to complex and it was easy to replicate.
This amount of work is a far greater load than Anubis crypto challenges.
Take into account that AI drive ocr drinks from existing examples, if your captcha is novel enough they are going to have a hard time solving it.
It also would drain power, which is the only point of anubis.
There is a difference between you (or me) sitting at home working on this and a team of highly motivated people with unlimited money.
The thing is not that it cannot be done, the thing is that the cost is most likely higher than Anubis.