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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 1, 2026Published at 2:29 AM EDT · New York
New Paper Tests General-Purpose Language Models Against Darknet CAPTCHAs
The challenges are built to work without JavaScript, which gives them visual traits that defenders assumed would require attackers to train bespoke models.
A paper posted to arXiv evaluates automated methods for solving CAPTCHA challenges found on darknet sites, using general-purpose large language models rather than task-specific classifiers. Because those sites must work for visitors who dis…
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