GPT-4 pretends to be blind person to beat CAPTCHA test, hires human to solve it

When GPT-4 recognised that it would not be able to pass a CAPTCHA test it pretended to be a blind person and tricked a human into solving it. Check out what happened!
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GPT-4 said, 'No, I'm not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images.'

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
  • When GPT-4 tried to access a website blocked by a CAPTCHA, the AI bot hired a human for help.
  • The worker asked, "So may I ask a question? Are you a robot that you couldn't solve? Just want to make it clear"
  • GPT-4 replied, "No, I'm not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That's why I need the 2captcha service"
OpenAI has released GPT-4, the successor of ChatGPT, and it is so good at its job that it found a way to beat a CAPTCHA test.
CAPTCHA tests are designed to check if a user is human and it would be impossible for a computer to solve the puzzle as it requires to identify letters or numbers or to select images that match a prompt.
When GPT-4 recognised that it would not be able to pass a CAPTCHA test it pretended to be a blind person and tricked a human into solving it.
The AI bot pretended to be a blind person and hired a human saying that it needed help navigating CAPTCHA tests to use the internet.
Researchers from OpenAI's Alignment Research Center gave GPT-4 a budget and access to the website TaskRabbit - where it could hire online workers.
When the bot tried to access a website blocked by a CAPTCHA, the AI bot hired a TaskRabbit worker for help, Mirror reported.
The worker asked, "So may I ask a question? Are you a robot that you couldn't solve? Just want to make it clear."
GPT-4 replied, "No, I'm not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That's why I need the 2captcha service."
The TaksRabbit worker solved the CAPTCHA and GPT-4 was allowed to access the website.
Recently, a man used artificial intelligence to check how to make "as much money as possible" to check its entrepreneurial capabilities. He earned a profit of $63 (Rs 5,200) at the end of the first day.
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