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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anyone else noticed there's never a captcha for "Select all images that contain pedestrians"? Seems significant somehow.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Finally explained why Teslas are hitting all pedestrians.

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I feel like not many people know that captchas train ai to be used to recognise things and for cars.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Man I've been getting a lot of the "images with cross walk" lately.

First of all, why the fuck you care about classifying a cross walk in your dataset. It's a damn computer - if it recognizes a hazard it shouldn't take more than a couple of instructions to throw the brakes.

Second, why the hell are you telling me I didn't select all the images with cross walks? Clearly I can tell and your software can't.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Americans wouldn't know what that was so they can't ask us

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really hate these text formats. It messes with the default reading order humans have had for millenia.

Why is the punchline before the start of the joke?

Yes the microblogging quote function should have an option to appear at the top aswell as the at the bottom. Depending on context, top is more practical.

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then failing the test somehow and having to click all the squares with stairs

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And then failing that one too because you take literally any measure to protect your privacy. And then the next one.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that why I get so many capchtas on firefox?

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

It definitely seems to be the case for me. VPNs and other privacy settings can trigger the aggressive captchas as well.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's fun to imagine a self-driving car somewhere basing its decisions on the results of those captchas. "Come on, someone tell me where the traffic light is, I really need to know, like, now, this is important, hurry up!"

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

There really is always a relevant XKCD.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

I understand that it's not even the pictures that matter so much as how you move your mouse to select.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Only humans can identify the machines that identify humans.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But what about the tiny corner of the traffic signal in the other box? What about pedestrian crossing lights? Do they count? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It's infuriating.

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Erratically selecting all images with the traffic lights. Otherwise they might think you are a robot.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

also sliding puzzle pieces into place

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

I had "select all objects that are lighter than this" and the reference was a dog and I was supposed to pick tennis balls and not ships. This was new to me but I managed quite well

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AI can solve logic/image captcha. So, yeah.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I hope so, we've been training it for years.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI generates the challenge, AI can solve it. What are we even doing here?

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We are the monkeys touching the thing on the screen to get a peanut or in this case a cookie.