Why captchas are getting harder

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Vox explains why the exceedingly tedious and frustrating world of captchas is getting even worse.

It’s not you — captchas really are getting harder. The worst part is that you’re partly to blame.

A captcha is a simple test that intends to distinguish between humans and computers. While the test itself is simple, there’s a lot happening behind the scenes. The answers we give captchas end up being used to make AI smarter, thus ratcheting up the difficulty of future captcha tests.

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