Robust CAPTCHA Using Audio Illusions in the Era of Large Language Models: from Evaluation to Advances
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| author | Ding, Ziqi Wan, Yunfeng Song, Wei Liu, Yi Deng, Gelei Sun, Nan Mo, Huadong Xue, Jingling Pan, Shidong Li, Yuekang |
| author_facet | Ding, Ziqi Wan, Yunfeng Song, Wei Liu, Yi Deng, Gelei Sun, Nan Mo, Huadong Xue, Jingling Pan, Shidong Li, Yuekang |
| contents | CAPTCHAs are widely used by websites to block bots and spam by presenting challenges that are easy for humans but difficult for automated programs to solve. To improve accessibility, audio CAPTCHAs are designed to complement visual ones. However, the robustness of audio CAPTCHAs against advanced Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models remains unclear.
In this paper, we introduce AI-CAPTCHA, a unified framework that offers (i) an evaluation framework, ACEval, which includes advanced LALM- and ASR-based solvers, and (ii) a novel audio CAPTCHA approach, IllusionAudio, leveraging audio illusions. Through extensive evaluations of seven widely deployed audio CAPTCHAs, we show that most existing methods can be solved with high success rates by advanced LALMs and ASR models, exposing critical security weaknesses.
To address these vulnerabilities, we design a new audio CAPTCHA approach, IllusionAudio, which exploits perceptual illusion cues rooted in human auditory mechanisms. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method defeats all tested LALM- and ASR-based attacks while achieving a 100% human pass rate, significantly outperforming existing audio CAPTCHA methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Robust CAPTCHA Using Audio Illusions in the Era of Large Language Models: from Evaluation to Advances Ding, Ziqi Wan, Yunfeng Song, Wei Liu, Yi Deng, Gelei Sun, Nan Mo, Huadong Xue, Jingling Pan, Shidong Li, Yuekang Sound Computers and Society Audio and Speech Processing CAPTCHAs are widely used by websites to block bots and spam by presenting challenges that are easy for humans but difficult for automated programs to solve. To improve accessibility, audio CAPTCHAs are designed to complement visual ones. However, the robustness of audio CAPTCHAs against advanced Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models remains unclear. In this paper, we introduce AI-CAPTCHA, a unified framework that offers (i) an evaluation framework, ACEval, which includes advanced LALM- and ASR-based solvers, and (ii) a novel audio CAPTCHA approach, IllusionAudio, leveraging audio illusions. Through extensive evaluations of seven widely deployed audio CAPTCHAs, we show that most existing methods can be solved with high success rates by advanced LALMs and ASR models, exposing critical security weaknesses. To address these vulnerabilities, we design a new audio CAPTCHA approach, IllusionAudio, which exploits perceptual illusion cues rooted in human auditory mechanisms. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method defeats all tested LALM- and ASR-based attacks while achieving a 100% human pass rate, significantly outperforming existing audio CAPTCHA methods. |
| title | Robust CAPTCHA Using Audio Illusions in the Era of Large Language Models: from Evaluation to Advances |
| topic | Sound Computers and Society Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08516 |