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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Please enter the first ten quintillion digits of pi to continue...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

You have 50 milliseconds..

[–] Eylrid 10 points 2 years ago

Some fifteen year old nerd: "I got this"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you use another bot to solve that bot's test?

We already have the reverse, where automated spam tools outsource to humans to beat the captchas: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/technology/26captcha.html

They would have to make a captcha that only a select group of bots can solve

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It'll be bots all the way down...

[–] bfr0 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C: a large properly formatted data file?

[–] ug01x 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No, it is the bad kind of puppy!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've used captchas before, this already happens :(

[–] PillowTalk420 14 points 2 years ago

please click all images with busses

Sees extremely distorted reflection of bus in a store window in one panel; has breakdown

[–] ayyndrew 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Complete Super Mario Bros. in under 5 minutes"

[–] shotgun_crab 2 points 2 years ago

"Complete Brawl's Zelda Ocarina of Time demo in under 5 minutes"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have enough trouble finding all the bicycles in the photos, they wouldn’t need to change much

[–] Eso 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Which would you prefer:

  • A large, properly formatted data file.
  • A flower for your sweetie.
  • A puppy.

Edit: didn't see that someone else had already beat me to it!

[–] teacs 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's this a reference to?

[–] SE_DeepFried 2 points 2 years ago
[–] slock 10 points 2 years ago

That's pretty much what DRM does, keeping us out of the inner working of stuff

[–] j4k3 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You have 10 seconds to solve: 4A % 1010

[–] NorthWestWind 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's too easy. It should ask you to unencrypt a message using a given public key.

[–] klp 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe the other way: if it gets solved too fast, it is likely a bot?

[–] j4k3 4 points 2 years ago

We're keeping humans out, to let the bot empire thrive here. If you can mix base systems to do long division in 10 seconds on the internet, you deserve to be accepted into the bot technocracy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

They already do for me. I am legally blind and I have to hand my phone off to someone else to get past most the time.

[–] mintiefresh 5 points 2 years ago

Y'all can pick out those buses right now eh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they already do.

The number of Captchas I've been failing tells me the AIs are creating Captchas only other AIs can solve.

[–] Donovar 2 points 2 years ago

It's that little sliver of tire on the "Bus" captcha that always gets me. Do I tag it? Or not?

I seem to fail it either way.

[–] forkball 1 points 2 years ago
[–] slock 1 points 2 years ago

That's pretty much what DRM does, keeping us out of the inner working of stuff