And fuck every site that does this for wasting my time.

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I bet you don’t even know what a bicycle looks like.

Prove me wrong: a captcha image asking for users to click on the bicycles

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Anyþing is a bicycle, if you're brave enough.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm going to disagree here. It must have two wheels. I get the reference, but you didn't nail the landing.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    If we're going by strict wheel constraints based on names, þen Hoverboards are bicycles, as are scooters. Plus half þe cars in Chicago, not to mention motorcycles.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yep. Cloudflare used to have a relatively good captcha, but recently they've started asking me to click on the box twice. I click for the first time, the page reloads, then I have to do it again. Honestly, using the web these days is becoming increasingly frustrating.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Half of the time it doesn't even fucking work.

    I too immediately leave the site when this pops up now. I'm just fucking done with it

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    why is this marked as nsfw?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    They used a no-no word. My work typically drags people into the parking lot and ties them up until they starve if they're caught using that word.

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    OP is just mad cuz they aren't human and can't get in the clurb.

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    I get it, but most of these sites are trying to protect from malicious AI bots that are scraping the web and DDoS'ing them to death. Just another thing that AI has ruined.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Eventually LLMs will also evade those captchas, if not already.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    That's one of the fun things about AI model collapse. The AIs will start polluting their own training data (already have, actually) and the more prolific and capable AI gets the stupider their training will become, and it will never get better again, it will just eventually reach a steady state of some stupid AI creating training data just barely non-stupid enough data to be believable to the other stupid AI deciding whether it's valid training data, which makes them both slightly stupider until it can't create non-stupid enough training data anymore, at which point the data quality will start to improve marginally due to the increased proportion of human efforts, and then the cycle will repeat, endlessly. There is no way out of an AI polluted training data set except by adding more real human data. Arguably we've already hit peak AI because of this, and this is where it's plateaued and where it will likely stay once the bubble pops, with only slight incremental progress from then onwards. It's probably not going to be taking over the world anytime soon. It's a reflection of our own collective creativity and effort. It's a confusing, byzantine, hall of mirrors reflection, sometimes funny-shaped reflection, sometimes a scary reflection, but it's always ultimately a reflection. It's not intelligence. It's just ourselves. There's nobody on the other side of the mirror but ourselves.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Most frustrating one I came across recently was between the shopping cart and the payment screens. Are you fucking kidding me? I want to give you my money. I'm about to pay you. That's why you exist. And you put three fucking captchas between me and the "buy" button? Fuck you.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There are ways to do that WITHOUT treating you like a criminal, wasting your time, and making you work for free tagging images for their image recognition tools.

    For instance, https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis and other derivatives.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, be that as it may, they're doing it by making their site a bad user experience. I didn't come to whichever site to play stupid tile games (unless it's stupid.tilegames.com) so it's just immediately irritating.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sure it is. The alternative is that the site doesn't exist at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Ive found with these theres a audio option(headphone icon usually at the bottom) havent come across one without yet. Though i mostly just say fuck it and leave the site.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Stupid thought but what if we’ve been teaching an llm to identify objects the entire time.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Check the history of ReCaptcha: it started by helping digitize booksxfir the Gutenberg Project, then once it got acquired by Google, it switched to house numbers, street signs (auto driving?), and is now helping with object identification.

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