“This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

“This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

  • Ice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    3 days ago

    Meanwhile google slapped me with nine captchas to fill out a form like wtf?

    • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      3 days ago

      Lemme guess… traffic lights, too many motorcycles, and buses? There was something “wrong” with your cookies cache or IP. Google just straight fucks with you if it sees network traffic it doesn’t like.

      • Glitterbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        “Hold on, you gotta wait for another picture of a bus to load. Nevermind that it now inexplicably takes 10 seconds to load the fucking picture”

        • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I think there’s a tampermonkey script that skips the “loading” time. It’s jarring but it works.

      • xylight@fedi.phtn.appEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Something I find really funny is that my residential IP gets flagged 80x more often than any VPN’s IPs I’ve tried.

        Although as soon as I see “Please try again” on a captcha, I leave the site. I got stuck on one for like 10 minutes before I finally gave up

      • kewjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        i never know what’s expected on those type of captcha. if the handle bars of a bike go into an adjacent box and are 99% covered by a hand does that count? what do you do when you have a blurry image full of jpg artifacts and are asked to identify if it contains a fire hydrant. I’m pretty sure it usually classifies me as a bot for being too exact since I’m asked follow ups for a few minutes until i give up and just close the tab out of annoyance.

        • reptar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          My son was looking over my shoulder, or vice-versa, while I bitched about that. It was bikes or motorcycles and I’d always click if I thought there was any amount of it in a picture. He told me not to be so precise, as in, if there’s a tiny bit of handlebar, didn’t count it. That seems to work better… unless it doesn’t like my VPN or whatever, in which case it’s never ending

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          That’s kind of the point, though. You’re teaching their AI how to make those decisions.

          • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Am I? Or does it think I’m a bot?

            I guess it’s on brand for Google to try and squeeze more value out of a product by making it worse for users. Just like Prabhakar Raghavan ruined Google search.

            • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              They almost always know whether or not you’re a bot before you get to any of those pictures. Making you deal with the pictures is how they “pay” for the capcha.

              You’ll notice most of the images are related to traffic. That’s training data for their self driving cars.

                • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  24 hours ago

                  Unfortunately, they thought of that. Some of them are known answers that they use to be sure you’re answering honestly. They’ll fail you on those even though they know you’re not a bot.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Also Anubis means I can’t access websites that use it because I run noscript
      and Nepenthes breaks my self-hosted search engine

      Guys, I think all those things to “verify if you’re humans” are hmm… doing something else ?