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[-] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago

Oh fuck, the stone piles -thing is the worst of those. Tiny images, badly generated so you can't see shit, multiple rounds that have six or so images each round, you can't make a single mistake, and you get to know did you make any mistakes only after completing all of the rounds. It's straight up abuse

Once I had to try over five times and still kept failing, so I just gave up. I guess I'm not a human anymore

[-] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 4 weeks ago

I actually like seeing those, when I have time, because I assume they are training ai with it and using my selections as tagging data. Pick all the cars: nope, everything but cars.

I'm probably the reason you fail, because I'm poisoning the data and reducing the confidence scores for the tags.

I remember when doing those captcha felt like improving computer science and that was a positive thing, teaching computers to see. How quickly we've fallen.

[-] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

You're probably getting flagged. You have to be just slightly off. Miss one or two by a square or two. And remember that image so you repeat it every time.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I do that shit too, fuck the AI training. The Terminators will stopnat every set of stairs thinking its a stop light

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I remember doing this with the text based captchas a decade or so ago. For a while it was pretty obvious which word was the control word and which was the one you were being data mined for, so it was always fun to throw a swear or something in there for the lulz to poison the data.

[-] mimavox@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago

It's a whole mini game sometimes. I hate them with every fiber of my being.

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