{"id":2807,"date":"2008-05-06T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:22:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-06T18:22:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:22:57","slug":"spammer-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/spammer-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammer AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhat if spammers come up with an artificial intelligence before Google does?&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAn early warning signal has been detected. The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/30\/AR2008043003704.html\">reports<\/a> that spammers may have control of computers that can decypher those letter puzzles on websites called CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHAs are designed to be solved only by humans, since &#8212; at least until now &#8212; only humans could unravel distorted, distressed lettering. The problem with making CAPTCHAs more difficult is that humans have trouble solving them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/captcha_banner.jpg\" height=\"160\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Captcha Banner\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe computer scientists can&#8217;t tell yet whether spammer bots or spammer-paid humans are solving the CAPTCHAs. That is the definition of passing the Turing test &#8212; if humans can&#8217;t tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if spammers come up with an artificial intelligence before Google does?&#160; An early warning signal has been detected. The Washington Post reports that spammers may have control of computers that can decypher those letter puzzles on websites called CAPTCHAs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/spammer-ai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}