I really hate the style of form captcha where one must demonstrate that one is a human being by choosing all the photos that contain cars, or all the photos that contain street signs, for example.
I don't know how people with vision impairments get past them at all. You have nine poor quality fuzzy images, some of which show part of an item that might, or might not, be a car or a street sign. And then there is the 'is this a car / street sign?' question. I just failed a captcha because an image showed me a thing that I would call a bus. But apparently to a captcha, it's a car. And if the 'street sign' shows a different language or indeed alphabet, sometimes you can't work out exactly what it is. Or it shows you a photo with what are probably cars, but they are tiny and far away!
Aaaaaaaaaaa! Come back, mental arithmetic captchas, all is forgiven!
I don't know how people with vision impairments get past them at all. You have nine poor quality fuzzy images, some of which show part of an item that might, or might not, be a car or a street sign. And then there is the 'is this a car / street sign?' question. I just failed a captcha because an image showed me a thing that I would call a bus. But apparently to a captcha, it's a car. And if the 'street sign' shows a different language or indeed alphabet, sometimes you can't work out exactly what it is. Or it shows you a photo with what are probably cars, but they are tiny and far away!
Aaaaaaaaaaa! Come back, mental arithmetic captchas, all is forgiven!
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It does make you start to wonder.
I think the way we're heading eventually we will end up with captchas that demonstrate that anyone who can handle them is a true AI.
I look forward in terror to the day when captchas will ask us to write a haiku, or tell it a joke, and will judge our humanity on how telling is the haiku, or how funny is the joke :-D
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Still not a robot.