Whenever I get a capcha of anyone on a vehicle, I always make it a point to highlight the entirety of the driver too because I’m not going to just let Google train its self-driving vehicles to just ignore that every motorcycle has a rider on it.
The worst for me is the motorcycles one; half of the pictures are of motor scooters. Does it count those as motorcycles or is it counting on the user to know the difference because they’re not technically the same thing?
I was about to make a similar comment but you beat me to it.
It recently showed me a bicycle as part of “select all motorcycles” so I didn’t pick it. And I failed. Twice. Finally picked the bicycle and it let me through. Guess the computer knows best.
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Its worst when you clearly see small traffic lights far back in the same pucture
Hate this. Every time, I seem to guess wrong.
Guess I’m a robot.
I stress about the whole damn pole. If you showed me a picture of a traffic 🚦 on pole, and asked me what it was, I would say “a traffic light” not “a traffic loght and a traffic light pole”
It’s funny that captchas are in a never ending arms race with bots trained on the same datasets capturing humans answering these stupid puzzles.
Pretty soon we’re going to be drinking verification cans
Well of course we are. A bot can’t drink!
I started half-assing these a long time ago because they never fail anyway.
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The test isn’t the panels you click on, it tracks how your mouse pointer moves. Bots or robots tend to move in straight lines, whereas with humans, the pointer moves in a more random fashion. That’s how you pass.
Those fire hydrants will haunt me in nightmares
Especially because the answers to these captchas are used to train self driving car AI, so if you fuck it up the self driving cars will crash and you will have blood on your hands :/
This is what “AI training” looks like, folks. The companies developing AI constantly tells us how awesome it is, but it still needs the help of humans to recognize basic sh*t like cars, buses, crosswalks and traffic lights. They didn’t choose those images by accident.
They do that on purpose, as an AI/Bot wouldn’t hesitate.
Sometimes I’ll be stuck on a captcha because I’m answering too fast, so I’ll wait a delay then hit the answer and suddenly it stops going in circles
I thought the reason is they want to see the limits of what a human considers qualify as answer to their question in order to better train their AI?
Edit: Although I guess nothing is stopping the answer from being Porque No los Dos?
I mean it could absolutely be both. There’s assumedly a lot that goes into these algorithms and most of it we will never know for sure, just make educated speculation lol
I had one of the old fashioned distorted text ones the other day, but instead of something like “please enter the text above” it just said “are you human?” next to the text box. Naturally, I typed “yes” but that turned out to be the wrong answer.
This was me in the early days of captchas. Now I’m all like 360 no-scope BOOM HEADSHOT let me in motherfuckers!
I think, the trick is to not over think it. Just go with your first impulse. Be quick, be lazy, because most people are and when you reply like most people, you are “no robot”.
In my experience the least thorough interpretation seems to be the most accepted.
I cry, rage, yell then I refresh the the captcha
story of my life…
