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Ah, okay.
So it’s just a “find the right picture” rather than “roll dice till you get a roll of five”. That’s still annoying, but a lot less insane.
It’s “provide is with reinforcement learning data to train AI’s how to read numbers in an image.”
Remember when captchas were supposed to protect from bots, not train them? I 'member…
It’s not less insane. Some of the puzzles will have huge double digit numbers, and they make you solve multiple puzzles to progress. Sony makes you solve 16 of these before barely moving your customer service request forward and delaying you further.