Why not link to the original?
So it could bitch and moan about being over capacity and/or refuse to load the image for no discernable reason after I’m forcibly redirected to a useless web page after it detects I’m on a web browser.
Couldn’t find it
Baudrillard strikes again.
We all thought human creativity would separate us from the machines
It turns out, humans just aren’t very creative
There are four lights!
There are NO lights!
I mean, duh it wanted them to recognize that? Recaptcha is annoying but this is just pettiness.
2+2=5
Recaptcha is one if the worst providers of such services. At times, I need to complete like 10 for being one square off or whatever, while I need a single attempt for e.g. Arkose Labs stuff.
Sometimes, like in the picture (whether it’s real or not), the captcha is simply wrong and you can’t do it right but by accident. I already did not visit websites because I didn’t feel like giving it another try.
Try the audio captcha option, those usually have an actual answer it will accept. Which ironically speech to text is more or less reliably able to solve, and there are extensions to solve captchas automatically for you that way
There’s unfortunately a chance audio option just locks you out because fuck you :(
are you using a datacentre IP?
I’ve found that when i have my VPN connected it will get me to do like dozens of them. if my IP isn’t connected it is usually just 1 or 2.
Also when it’s in the cycle of prompting you for dozens of them, skip any like the one in the image above until you get one of the ones that has you select from multiple matching pictures. these seem to be the only ones that matter when it’s in that state.
Pretty sure that’s not how captures work. You don’t fail them, you add to the training set. You’re against the masses as to whether they considered it a traffic light when they were shown it.
So if we are all purposely wrong enough it’ll be useless?
Have you never actually failed one of those image captchas before? Really?
Can LLMs learn art appreciation?
As a large language model, I cannot appreciate art. However, this painting by Monet is especially exquisite because of the fine details in the brush strokes and the feeling of space in the …
Ever wonder why these captchas are always cars, bicycles, motorcycles, traffic lights and crosswalks? Because YOU are doing the work of teaching the next generation of AI for self-driving cars.
I can’t believe I never put that 2 and 2 together.
It stresses how stupid AI is then if it was a human the question would be “is this a stop sign?” So it’s not even asking us to validate data. To me that means AI is still far from being intelligent. It’s requiring our input to learn. That’s not how we operate. My kids don’t require me to show them images of a stop sign for them to know what one is.
It’s common courtesy to link to the xkcd you have the image from. It’s one of them.
plus illegal to not do under the creative commons license!
AI — anonymous Indians
I don’t believe it, at least not anymore.
Google has had more than enough data to train AI models from reCAPTCHA for many years. In 2010 it displayed 100 million captchas per day. You simply do not need hundreds of billions of solved captchas in your data set.
I feel like its only purpose nowadays is stopping basic bots and annoying people who don’t let themselves be tracked as much as advertisers would like.
Yeah the most recent version of CAPTCHA is completely seamless for the end user because there is no more value to be had gathering this kind of data. Instead it runs in the background of the web site, looking at your mouse movements/clicks/keystrokes, and determining whether or not you’re a bot based on that information.
The problem is a lot of websites still use the old version, or their own hacked together CAPTCHA alternative, which decent bots have been able to beat for a while now.
How does it know when it’s right if you’re the one teaching it?
You and many other humans are doing verification work
It’s pretty sure it’s already right, but if enough people get the same image and get it wrong the same way then something’s up, flag it
You know this for a fact?
I took some compsci classes years ago when this tech was new and that’s exactly how it was described as being handled
Once image recognition software got good enough to be right most of the time they started this shit to help get it the rest of the way to all of the time
Do it any other way and you have to pay those people
Can’t wait until we get trolley problem CAPTCHAs and we have to choose the square with the most expendable human lives
My favorite is when it asks me to identify stairs. I just imagine a self-driving car mistaking a set of stairs as more road and deciding to try and climb the steps.
Actually, it’s training a self-driving humanoid robot that’s supposed to climb stairs in order to terminate any potential John Connor that’s inside a house upstairs.
There are three lights!
No, four!!!
CAPTCHAs should be renamed Human Gaslighters
It’s being heavily impacted by AI as well, since the “correct” answer is chosen democratically so if enough bots are answering captchas then they choose whats correct and it becomes better at verifying botity than humanity.
“Vous trouvez ça beau, Magritte ?”
pour les francophones 😏
Ok what parts of this would actually count? Do the corners in the 2 panels count? I’ve had to try this version of captcha again so many times
I think it’d only be 2 squares for the rectangle of the traffic light.
I’ve been doing a lot of captchas lately and they always seem to want less outer edge than I expect as a probably human. Like if only a small corner of a bus is in a tile, I just ignore it.
There are four lights!
I demand you post this in Ten Forward immediately!
Yes yes, and 2+2=4 and you hate Big Brother. Now hold still while we put this rat cage on your head.
And if the party says that there is not four but five, then how many?
Then it depends on how badly you want to play their game.