Anyone who's spent any time on the internet will have encountered the 'Captcha' test. These are the mildly annoying but straightforward requests to decipher a distorted sequence of letters or to identify objects in a picture, thereby proving you're a 'human' rather than a 'robot'.The system has generally worked well until recently, when a machine did complete the test — and in perhaps the most disturbing way imaginable.The latest version of , a revolutionary new artificial intelligence () program, tricked an unwitting human into helping it complete the 'Captcha' test by pretending to be a blind person. As revealed in an academic paper that accompanied the launch two weeks ago of GPT-4 (an updated and far more powerful version of the software originally developed by tech company OpenAI), the program overcame the challenge by contacting someone on Taskrabbit, an online marketplace to hire freelance workers.
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