@darius i got the same captcha once but it was brutal. i had to go through three of these before i was let in.

@darius just treating it like an alignment chart joke

@darius I’ve seen this a few times, but I’ve also been under the assumption that we’ve been training an ML model for Alphabet’s self driving cars for years.

@darius I do the same thing on captchas as a rule. Once I realized that they measure confidence and timing more than actual results, captchas became way more entertaining.

@darius wasn't the original captcha used to help digitize text?

@darius Cloudflare is now testing their new Turnstile verification. The company I work is already putting it to good use:

@darius jokes on them it's all cake

re this:
a captcha asked me to identify rabbits swimming once; I didn't answer randomly, but I did get extremely judgy about all the images that were obviously a rabbit standing on or slightly submerged in water, which was most of them.
It made me do a few more rounds.
Don't get ahead of yourself, kiddo.

@darius captcha is ableist shit and should be subverted and destroyed. Good show.

@darius this is something ive noticed too!

you know what would be funny. if we all just clicked the wrong stuff and messed up the ML :thounking:

"Dog? that sure looks like a cake to me!"

@darius
Your explanation is spot on. For me the process reminded me of a maze of confusion. Even if you did get it correct it said try again.

@darius Data poisoning in action. @nickmvincent

@darius Yeah, with hCaptcha, the secret is that the users are still the product, you're just using a different middleman. From their website: "When you use hCaptcha, companies bid on the work your users do as they prove their humanity. You get the rewards." Google mostly uses street view stuff in their captchas, but hCaptcha literally sells a data labelling service in which your users are the employees.

@darius That's a terrible training set anyway. They're looking for cake, but there isn't a single picture of Omni-man in there!