What happens when you ask ChatGPT to solve a CAPTCHA? True story
I sent ChatGPT a CAPTCHA image (I was testing an automation script), and it scolded me, saying, "You shouldn't ask me to solve these like you're a human." Well... fair enough.
But then, when automating a browser, how are you supposed to get past image CAPTCHAs? Isn't it impossible without human intervention? I tried running OCR with Tesseract, and it's brutally hard.
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True, even humans get captchas wrong sometimes lol
Simply adding human intervention is the answer. If you want full automation, either use a CAPTCHA-solving API (paid) or design your browser automation to avoid detection altogether. Breaking image CAPTCHAs with OCR is old news—these days reCAPTCHA blocks all of that.
Well, that's a bit... bypassing CAPTCHA itself is a ToS violation and could be abused, so why bother? Even if it's a test, having ChatGPT do it was kind of iffy too.
Oh, I didn't know this. ChatGPT has a conscience lol.