• katy ✨
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    5 months ago

    <click the traffic lights>

    me: clicks all the traffic lights

    <wrong!>

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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      I hate that captcha – the Google captcha where a single image (like a picture of a street with traffic lights, bikes, buses, etc) is divided up – it is the worst one by far.

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        I’ve always thought it was intentional so that humans could train the edge detection of the machine vision algorithms.

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          It is. The actual test for humans there isn’t the fact that you clicked the right squares, it’s how your mouse jitters or how your finger moves a bit when you tap.

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          Of course not. But what about that millimeter of tire? Or the tenth of the rearview mirror?

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              Right? After failing 90% of captchas I started selecting the person on the motorcycle as well. And wouldn’t you know it, I’m now passing most if the time.

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        I hate when the captcha starts at 1/10, so much so that I’ll usually just walk away if I can.

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      You‘re doing it too fast most likely. Try doing it very slowly instead. I recently realized most captchas are designed for seniors, not tech savvy people. They will keep throwing them at you if you‘re too good at them. I think the joke that one day only AIs can solve captchas so you have to fail at them in order to be recognized as human has long become a reality in a way. Hope that helps.