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I've started intentionally making my answers subtly wrong. E.g., if something might look like a fire hydrant, but isn't, I mark it positive. I usually have to
by ColanR 6y ago
I've started intentionally making my answers subtly wrong. E.g., if something might look like a fire hydrant, but isn't, I mark it positive. I usually have to do it a few times anyway, and it makes me feel better to think Google's AI datasets are inaccurate.
- quicklime 6y agoHah nice, I thought I was the only one who did this! I've noticed that in the more extreme edge cases, it lets me through anyway. Maybe other people aren't paying enough attention to notice that there's actually a difficult-to-see street sign in that particular square. Sometimes I feel bad that one day, a Waymo car is going to miss a stop sign because of me. But then, I also resent being used as a free mechanical turk, and they should know better than to rely on random people from the internet to build safety-critical systems.
- mastazi 6y agoIn my experience, when I do it slightly wrong it actually takes less steps to get through. I guess in the age of Yolo v4 and such, doing it “too well” actually makes you look like a robot?
- robotnikman 6y agoI've noticed this too. If you do the captchas too quickly you get more of them as well. If I 'dumb' myself down a little I usually only just get one of them
- xaedes 6y agoI suspect doing it too well marks you as a valuable contributor and tries to get the most out of you. Abuse.
- drusepth 6y agoI never understood the mindset that finds joy in throwing off the datasets being trained on these kinds of captchas. Is it related more to the "rush" of cheating on a test in school (i.e. figuring out a way to "cheat" on the captcha), or rooted more in rebellion against Google/whoever?
- philipwhiuk 6y agoIt's "I'm being paid to crowd source Google's future billion dollar profits"
- swebs 6y agoThe second one. If someone were forcing you to perform slave labor for them, you'd want to do a crappy job as possible just to spite them.
- denysvitali 6y agoWe will all thank you when Waymo will be stuck at an hydrant thinking it is a red traffic light lol
- stimpson_j_cat 6y agoGoogle knows 2 out of the 3. The same with text captchas, they knew 1 of the 2. It assumes if you got one right, you got the others too. So they key is guessing which one is unknown, picking the correct ones, and picking a random one for the last