James GleickI’m stumped. As usual, I’m supposed to persuade a robot that I am not a robot. Does the bottom-center square contain a bicycle?
I know what René Magritte would say.
John Gordon 📷@JamesGleick I swear these things don't actually care what you click. I've made mistakes on these (missed images, or clicked ones that don't contain the object) and it still lets me through. Other times, I will get them all right and it will show a new image.
I have had a feeling they are using these to help annotate images for training, and the "prove you're human" part is based on mostly matching the consensus and/or timing or order of the clicks.
Suzanne Paley@Bluedonkey @JamesGleick It is absolutely true that they are using these for training. We use one of these services (hcaptcha -- I don't think it's this one, but similar types of puzzles) to verify humanity when signing up for an account on our site, and we actually accrue very very small amounts of cryptocurrency when people solve them, so someone out there is paying for the results.
No idea what criteria it actually uses to determine you're human though.