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The Next Generation of CAPTCHA: LLM Detectors
The democratization of LLM force means we need new defenses
CAPTCHAs: Annoying but very necessary
If you’ve logged into at least a handful of websites, you have probably run across a hard to read word you need to type into a box, a box you need to check, you might even be prompted into the confusing identification of all the matching “traffic lights” or some such object. Some websites even have you rotate an object.
Why? You might ask, do we need such a thing? Well, imagine if we didn’t have CATPCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). You’d find that, as bad as the internet is now with bots and spam accounts, it would be a wild west of bot accounts. As the name suggests, CAPTCHAs exist to try to limit (or ideally, eliminate) the volume of bots that can log into and interact with sites.
But it’s an arms race; as bots get better at being able to fool CAPTCHAs, new ones have to come out. And a new generation of bots has arrived.
New Bots on the Block
The latest usage of bots is more a misuse of ChatGPT: namely; writing response to job postings using ChatGPT. Instead of either winging it with a normal resume and maybe a cover letter, individuals are filling out…
