Yeah, a lot of the discussion here and in OP seems to take the machine learning angle at too much face value. Sometimes a CAPTCHA is just a CAPTCHA. Guys, do y

Yeah, a lot of the discussion here and in OP seems to take the machine learning angle at too much face value. Sometimes a CAPTCHA is just a CAPTCHA. Guys, do you really think that in 2021, when ImageNet has been solved to hell and back even with unlabeled data, and CNNs/Transformers/MLP eat it for breakfast, and we are doing OCR from CLIP trained on unlabeled untranscribed images, Google really needs you to label images of big green US highway signs written in the standardized highway font with text containing names of highways and words like 'miles'? "Oh yes, I can distinguish between 100 breeds of dogs and I know what every public figure in the world looks like and can edit images with the 'unreal engine' trick - but gosh, I just can't figure out where in this image a big green blob is! Only humans with a soul can possibly do that!"