Worst CAPTCHA Ever

There's more to CAPTCHA than meets the eye...

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[SuprousOxide]

What I hate is the infuriating ones where you click a correct box, and it slowly disappears to be replaced with ANOTHER picture, which is probably also a fire hydrant, so you have to click that, too.

[Noahdaz]

"Pick the wrong shadow" is viscerally horrifying as a concept, but creatively fascinating

[SDWNJ]

I was once given a captcha that asked to select the images of parking meters. One of the images was a plastic mailbox that the captcha thought was a meter. I failed the captcha for knowing it wasn’t a meter.

[ZGExtraDriveStorage]

"What is love?
○ A complex set of emotions
○ Baby don't hurt me."

Had me dying lmao 💀

Wish captchas were actually that funny...

[kasperchristensen]

In my opinion the most elegant one is the one where you simply click the "I'm not a robot" checkbox and all the analysis/evaluation is done behind the curtains.

[Maker]

"Let's stop AI by making them read and at the same time train an AI to learn how to read"
"We no longer can use that anymore as somehow AI's have learned how to read"

[sollyoutube_]

I admire Simi’s ability to take a seemingly boring topic and make me invested for 17+ minutes

[NFSHeld]

What makes us human?
❌ Love, affection, care
❌ Music, painting, lyrics and other art forms
❌ Reasoning, doubt, critical thinking
✅ Selecting all traffic lights

[archerestarcher]

By the way the jigsaw ones are typically tracking your mouse movement to see if it moves in an imprecise human way or a far too precise robot way.

[davidh.]

Right now I'm regularly having to deal with a "choose the similar shapes" captcha. Problem is that I'm color blind, and the red-on-purple hexagons and green-on-yellow triangles are almost impossible for me to pick out. Especially given the teeny-tiny window it gives you.

[LordHonkInc]

Just gonna drop my favorite quote which I always get reminded of when CAPTCHAs come up:

"There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." -Yosemite Park Ranger on why it's hard to design a bear-proof garbage can.

[username]

My favorite kind of Captcha is the one where you click the verify button and then just wait for a few seconds and then the Captcha is just done with no effort whatsoever.

[mmhmnms]

fun fact: on some sus websites (pirated movies and stuff), if you're shown a captcha it might not be for the site you're on, instead it's getting you to solve it for a different site so it can bot *that* site

don't need to make the AI better if you can just get a human to do it without knowing 😌

[AshArtzMusic]

I remember this old audio test that still scares me to this day, it was one where you type the characters you hear but the audio sounded like a loud intercom in a parking lot with sirens on in the background, very unsettling

[gltchygremln]

Captchas 10 years from now:
- Do a photorealistic drawing of a dog to prove you're a human
- Win a TF2 match to prove you're a human
- Write a song about proposing to a supercomputer to prove you're a human
- Bake lemon macarons and mail them to the company to prove you're human
- Translate the Voynich Manuscript to prove you're human

[Croc]

A couple of weeks ago, Twitter presented a "pick the shadow that matched the icons at the top of the image" captcha. My twitter account was in a head lock for a whole 2 days because the captcha was impossible for me to complete. I tried to get my dad to complete the captcha as well, and he couldn't do it either. The only thing that saved me was when the captcha changed to something else.

[luciesimpson]

At this point, we've gone from "how do we fool an AI that can't recognize text if it's a picture" to "how long before AIs learn how to recognize, behave in response to, and interpret abstract concepts better than humans?"

[TarunoNafs]

You might be interested in Chinese CAPCHA too, they have evolved to rely on different uses of the Chinese language. For example:
1. As Chinese characters are basically square-y pictures, like 架, 奇, 雯 etc., they ask you to rotate a random character upright in the correct way. People who knows Chinese can do that effortlessly.
2. Different Chinese characters have the same or similar pronunciation, e.g. 忍, 人, 認, 刃, 仁, 韌, 飪... are all "ren" in mandarin, spoken in different tones, and all commonly used. So there is a CAPCHA for you to pick "which word sounds the closest to the given word". And also, to match the word to the given pinyin (i.e. "ren") and vice versa.
3. Three random, uncommon Chinese characters are given, and the distorted version on these three characters are hidden in a colourful picture. You are asked to click on each, according to the order they are listed in the question.

[TheLonelyGoomba]

That Roblox captcha one with the rotating animals... I'm so glad you mentioned that cos, that was an absolute nightmare

[bytereal]

Everybody gangsta until you see your own number on the address CAPTCHA