More surprising is how apparently some of you haven’t encountered captchas that employ nuance, and what seems like the obvious answer sometimes isn’t.
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Mandy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The most surprising thing is how you and some commenters dont see how obvious and dead simple the answer is
Like, should they show you a block of ice and a fire next time?
mateomaui@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
my man, its a blizzard and indoors, what part of that has any more nuance than being beaten over the head with the answer
mateomaui@reddthat.com 10 months ago
The different snow images have different color tones, some matching that of the example image. The center image has a cool color tone, which doesn’t match. Captchas are made to defeat AI logic, so sometimes it’s not the obvious thing. It could very well possibly be selecting all images that match the color tone, something a bot may not work out. It could be just selecting indoor images. I wouldn’t know for certain until I got one these and succeeded or failed.
BluesF@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Captchas aren’t made to “defeat AI logic”, the human detection happens in part outside the picture selection part. The picture selection is for training AI. In this case you are training an AI to distinguish the (potentially abstract) concept of warmth.
moody@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I couldn’t get past “pick the smallest animal”
There was a large picture of a hummingbird, and a tiny panda. Both choices were wrong, apparently. They probably meant that I should pick the pettiest animal.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Captchas are made to defeat AI logic, so sometimes it’s not the obvious thing. It could very well possibly be selecting all images that match the color tone, something a bot may not work out.
IMO the idea here is that most users are not thinking very hard, so they are going to see the word “warmer”, think “snow = cold” and leave their analysis at that. AI on the other hand is going to put more effort into interpreting the specific meaning of the request in context of the images. The primary challenge for captchas now is to defeat AI, so the captcha ideas that get through probably did so because they gave the AI trouble in testing, but did not give most users trouble.
I think that going forward, people who put thought into following specific directions accurately are going to have a lot of trouble with captchas.
Old_Dude@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s a sample picture of a living room, then pictures of living rooms and snowy houses.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
The thing is that a captcha is made to be solvable by almost anyone.
So whatever you think the answer is, is probably one of the many correct responses.
kralk@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Something that’s obvious to you isn’t necessarily obvious to everyone.
Old_Dude@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It even clearly gives an example of a picture of a living room.
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The most surprising thing is how you and some commenters dont see how obvious and dead simple the answer is
Like, should they show you a block of ice and a fire next time?
This is an incredibly narrow view of people, and what ‘obvious’ is. This sentence is absolutely awful if you’re ESL in any way:
Please select all images of one type that appear warmer in comparison to other images
Even I stumbled for a second on that sentence. What the hell does ‘appear warmer’ mean? Colour, hue, saturation, is there a temperature reading on them? It can snow at zero degrees, but that middle image could be -20 for all we know; it’s in shadow and the only non-cool-colour in it is that orange rectangle.
I mean, to me, it’s obvious that you add an apostrophe to ‘don’t’ but you didn’t. Your sentence also doesn’t end with a period. Does that mean I get to call you out for missing such an ‘obvious’ thing, and insult you for not doing it? You know, how obvious and dead simple writing your sentence correctly would be.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 10 months ago
The nuance is the entire point of the CAPTCHA. It’s not really hard to go “inside warmer than snowy outside” but I imagine whole groups of neurodivergent people will be getting locked out by these.
geogle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Warm could also translate to “cozy” or overall “hue”. Neither would necessarily pick the indoor photos. I don’t think you need to be neurodivergent to be confused, maybe just a little more artistically minded.
AlternateMrPapaya@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plus, there’s no way to know what the indoor temperature is. There may be no heating in the houses.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 10 months ago
Well, if you misinterpret this question, you’ll probably get the next one. The important thing about these is that you shouldn’t overthink them, they’re not worth the mental effort and they don’t expect serious dedication from you anyway.
force@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s pretty frustrating when you need to do something relatively quickly and you get a captcha and get it “wrong” like 8 times because of this kind of bs. Especially annoying when you get captchas multiple times. It’s just wasting my time, I don’t have the patience for that trash.
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
okay that one is understandable, thank you
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Thanks for reminding me of my neurodivergence, I couldn’t figure it out either.
I was starting to think “ok this one looks lit and cozy, and how am I supposed to tell how well insulated these houses are?”