• NutWrench
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    123 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      312 minutes ago

      Can’t wait until we get trolley problem CAPTCHAs and we have to choose the square with the most expendable human lives

    • @[email protected]
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      53 hours ago

      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.

      • Daemon Silverstein
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        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.

  • lime!
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    135 hours ago

    i really wish quote tweets (xeets? skeets? yeets?) would put the original post above the response…

  • @[email protected]
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    105 hours ago

    It takes an extra second or two, but I’ve been using speech-to-text on the audio option. Instead of a chore, it’s an exploit! (Not really but your dopamine doesn’t have to know that)

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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    8 hours ago

    Am I the only one who has to do like 12 of these in a row before my humanity is recognized? Beyond mildly inconvenient, it’s downright annoying now.

    Edit: I use Mullvad + Firefox + Betterfox + uBO. I don’t think my setup is that sophisticated lmao

    • Unruffled [he/him]
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      114 hours ago

      It’s because you are using a VPN. You always get a ton more captchas when using a VPN on some websites. Mainly because they don’t want you using one, so you can be tracked for ads.

    • babybus
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      You aren’t the only one. I don’t bother solving them anymore because of this nonsense. I simply close the tab.

    • RandomStickman
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      229 hours ago

      After I started using a VPN it’s way too annoying to try and pass it. I use the audio alternative when possible. If not I kinda just give up lol

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      This may have changed since they seem to alter how these things work from time to time, but I’ve found that if you just keep getting one captcha after another, and you know you’re not making errors, try solving them slowly.

    • Kerb
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      169 hours ago

      imo thats unusual.
      i usually need to do 3 at most.

      do you use a vpn or something like that?

      • @RedditRefugee69
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        249 hours ago

        VPN and strong anti fingerprinting probably.

        • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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          68 hours ago

          It must be the VPN. Just about every site I visit is worse now. Several times I’ve visited a sites and just been outright denied entry if I don’t turn my VPN off. And I Alt + Left the fuck out of them.

          • @RedditRefugee69
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            37 hours ago

            Same. Every time I get a captcha I remember it’s because I don’t have Google sitting on my shoulder watching literally every move I make on my browser.

    • @[email protected]
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      If it has an error it will keep asking you for more forever.

      It’s best to refresh the page if you get more than a couple.

    • AItoothbrush
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      48 hours ago

      If i try to pretend im a human it goes faster. Fidget with the mouse, hesitate and make a few small mistakes.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 hours ago

      Those are used to train AI, so my guess is there are some kinds of quotas that they have to make within a certain time and when they underperform they just increase the load on each user.

    • @[email protected]
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      125 hours ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    77 hours ago

    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

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      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.