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Stupid captcha thinks I'm not human, took me ages to realise why: 'click all the squares containing an item you might need on a hot summer day'; it wants me to
by OJFord 3y ago
Stupid captcha thinks I'm not human, took me ages to realise why: 'click all the squares containing an item you might need on a hot summer day'; it wants me to select the iced drinks but not the sunglasses. I eventually realised because the image next to the text prompt is of iced drinks, not sunglasses. Right, like a bot couldn't figure that out, and how inhuman my interpretation was...
- nottorp 3y agoIf it makes you feel any better, non americans need to think how the item you're looking for is pictured in hollywood movies to solve some captchas...
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- OJFord 3y agoNo it doesn't, because I am also non-American and learnt about 'crosswalks' and 'parking meters' through captchas. And yes, had to think to films for 'fire hydrants' and traffic lights.
- rogual 3y agoThere must be so many people who give up on the "fire hydrant" ones. In my country they're all underground. The knobbly ones they expect you to recognize as such are a distinctly American phenomenon.
- nottorp 3y agoYep, fire hydrants are the main culprit. But once you learn them, you just pretend you've seen them before :) I've also failed to recognize crosswalks. That's for the most common captchas. When they try to get smart and unusual, it's even more fun. But those are rare enough that I don't remember specific examples.
- petesergeant 3y agoI got that too! A dog wearing sunglasses is definitely needed on a hot summer day.
- sobellian 3y agoMine directed me to "please click on all objects faster than an average human." Given that I want to prove my humanity, it sounds rather silly.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoI immediately speed-clicked all the squares like an idiot.
- Finnucane 3y agoIs a sheep faster than an average human? Does that mean walking, running? How fast can a sheep run? I don't really know! Then I had pictures of horses and a lightbulb floating on an abstract pixelated background that said "which item doesn't belong." Clearly, the answer was "none of these things belong."
- actionfromafar 3y agoAnd over how many weeks? Humans are pretty darn good at walking for 40 days straight.
- TrueGeek 3y agoI failed this twice. Wasn't there an article on HN a few months ago about how AI was already better than us at these captchas?
- kjkjadksj 3y agoYou don’t even need ai to detect a bot user agent on your site, its easy enough to fingerprint them if you cared to do so. The fact that most webmasters don’t care to do so is also why its so easy to fingerprint them.
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