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(Actual capture. I failed to solve it.)

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[–] aMockTie@piefed.world 12 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

What in the AI dystopian future kind of BS is that?

Also I hate to pick nits, but it's technically "CAPTCHA" and not "capture." It's supposed to be an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It is a screen capture of this ridiculous test though

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I thought that these had been cracked by AI already so I'm not quite sure why we're even being presented with it.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 points 54 minutes ago

Usually they're still used to label images for training AI

To train AI to solve them