Go home captcha....

[ttyymmnn]

.... you're drunk again.

[Highlander]

@ttyymmnn I hat captcha. It doesn't make any sense.

[facw]

@ttyymmnn

[Roadkilled]

@ttyymmnn I believe that this captcha system is run by Google. They are using it to train their machine learning systems. They want their automated systems to be able to recognize bicycles. It picks a picture that it thinks may include a bicycle. A human at Google uses their judgement to set the basic captcha rules. However, the thousands of users who use that captcha help refine the algorithm better than a single human could. For Google, it's free labor to improve their machine learning systems. The result is that you often get a strange captcha challenge.

[just-a-scratch]

@roadkilled this is one form of offloading work on customers that I am totally OK with. Everyone gets some benefit and downsides seem extremely small.

[Krusty Walnut]

@ttyymmnn Mmmmm.... KTM Adventure. It has good taste it bicycles.

[facw]

@just-a-scratch It is pretty frustrating when you get one like this that is just wrong though. I mean sure you can jus get another, but I want it to learn!

[ttyymmnn]

@highlander said in Go home captcha....:

@ttyymmnn I hat captcha. It doesn't make any sense.

Are you a robot?

[ttyymmnn]

@roadkilled said in Go home captcha....:

They are using it to train their machine learning systems.

So it has absolutely nothing to do with determining whether or not I'm a robot?

[LooseonExit]

@ttyymmnn said in Go home captcha....:

@roadkilled said in Go home captcha....:

They are using it to train their machine learning systems.

So it has absolutely nothing to do with determining whether or not I'm a robot?

I just assume everything I interact with on the internet these days is a machine learning algorithm. So, yes, you are a robot.

[Skyfire77]

@looseonexit

[just-a-scratch]

@looseonexit I don't want to be a robot, but I suppose that isn't a choice.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/robot

[facw]

@ttyymmnn It's doing double duty. It's showing you aren't a robot, while also training AIs. In the case of Google, they started with word identification to help with their book scanning project, then moved to identifying house numbers to help with maps, and are now clearly on to self-driving. These do show you aren't a robot, because if it were easy for a machine to do, they'd already be doing it. Though it does mean they need to update the challenges from time to time, because the machines are getting smarter.

[Roadkilled]

@ttyymmnn It's still trying to figure out if you are a robot. However, it is only partly based on what squares you click. It's also watching your mouse movements. Do you move between squares like a human or a robot? That's why there are some captchas that are just clicking a box that says "I am not a robot". Those look at the cursor movement and the click to determine if you are a human. Google is just combining this with using you to train their machine learning systems.

[Skyfire77]

@ttyymmnn I remember as a young Skyfire having an anthology of sci-fi stories, one of which was a tale of human survivors in a robot uprising. The clankers had infiltrators among the humies, who were trying to come up with a way to weed them out. The skinjobs could fool what ever medical tests the survivors had access to, didn't trigger animals, and were immune to the usual logic bombs. Spit-balling ideas, someone suggested asking for rhymes to words like "orange" and the like; innocuous to humans, but it was hoped that the canners wouldn't recognize the danger and would burn out trying to think up a rhyme. As they're talking about it, they notice one of their number staring straight ahead as smoke pours from his ears...

[dogisbadob]

@skyfire77 said in Go home captcha....:

@looseonexit

[facw]

@skyfire77 SMBC loves to do robot detection comics. For example:

But also:

[dogisbadob]

@just-a-scratch said in Go home captcha....:

@roadkilled this is one form of offloading work on customers that I am totally OK with. Everyone gets some benefit and downsides seem extremely small.

fuck captchas. They're fucking annoying, don't stop the bots, and of course the free labor shit

[Skyfire77]

@facw I have concerns about that first one, specifically the "hurricane vs kitty" question. I've found watching a pet die far sadder than seeing the effects of a hurricane on TV.

Wait, am I a robot? Or are they?

Shit...

[facw]

@skyfire77 No the kitty is the "human" answer, not the coldly rational robot answer.

[Skyfire77]

@facw Gotcha, missed that part of the comic.