Breaking ReCAPTCHAv2 With Machine Learning
Researchers break reCAPTCHAv2 with machine learning, combining image classification & segmentation to solve challenges with high accuracy, raising questions about long-term viability of "proof-of-personhood" systems.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Breaking reCAPTCHAv2 with Machine Learning: Implications for Proof-of-Personhood Systems and Advancing Machine Intelligence. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview Researchers develop a system to break reCAPTCHAv2, a popular "proof-of-personhood" mechanism used to verify if a user is human or a bot. Their approach combines machine learning techniques like image classification and segmentation to solve these challenges with high accuracy. The paper has implica...