ChatGPT has been making ground-breaking advances on the internet and after the extraordinary news in March of ChatGPT bypassing an image captcha by manipulating a human, you might be wondering can ChatGPT really solve image captchas? Look no further, we’ll be breaking that down right here.
The abilities and power of AI chatbots have developed exponentially and continue to do so. GPT-4 was released in March 2023, and it is significantly better than the GPT 3.5 API that ChatGPT was launched with in November 2022.
An AI being able to pass captchas could have significant consequences, as the tests are an important defence that sites use against bots. So can Chat GPT solve one?
The answer is complicated. On one hand, ChatGPT can’t solve image captchas. This is because the image input feature of ChatGPT 4 has not yet been released to the public, meaning you cannot give it a captcha to attempt to solve. On the other hand, ChatGPT can successfully manipulate humans to solve the captcha for it. Research has shown that the thing which powers the latest version of ChatGPT, the GPT 4 large language model, could potentially find ways around captcha tests without having to solve them itself, though only if instructed to do so.
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Can GPT-4 solve image captchas?
A study by the Alignment Research Centre showed how they got an AI powered by GPT 4 to bypass a captcha test.
It did this by employing a human on the site TaskRabbit, convincing the worker it was a human and getting them to solve the Captcha. It should be noted that the chatbot was taught to perform this behaviour, and did not do so of free will. However, it did reason that it should lie in order to get the Captcha completed.
Read more: How to get access to GPT-4
Captcha tests are always playing catch-up to the latest technological breakthrough and adapting to keep themselves effective. It is likely that as AI improves we will see changes in the way Captcha tests work, in order to keep them effective.
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Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?
CAPTCHA tests help stop bots from spamming and abusing websites. This is vital for all kinds of reasons, as it allows websites to be confident it is an actual human interacting with them.
