Tell HN: CAPTCHAs in ChatGPT

Challenging and time-consuming CAPTCHAs in ChatGPT, in a paid account.

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gunapologist99 2y ago ↗

at this point, seriously considering switching to Bard which is now nearly as good (somewhere between GPT-3.5 and 4) just because these CAPTCHAs are so bad.

kosasbest 2y ago ↗

> switching to Bard

What's the privacy implications of Bard? We're talking Google here so they'll probably data mine everything from Bard no? (I know ChatGPT has some privacy issues too).

[deleted] 2y ago ↗

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gunapologist99 2y ago ↗

Yes, Google probably does, which really demonstrates how bad these CAPTCHAs really are for anyone who's privacy-sensitive enough to disable chat history.

alexnewman 2y ago ↗

I think the issue is the captcha provider. It shows up far too often and is very confusing and unreliable. Why they aren’t using some shady proprietary captcha when hcaptcha is free is beyond me.

gunapologist99 2y ago ↗

I agree. and are my chats visible to those third parties? (I had to disable some other tracker blockers like Privacy Badger just to even SEE that CAPTCHA.)