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I wish to solve CAPTCHA with bicycles, motorcycles etc. in a manner consistent with chaotic good alignment, benevolence, humanitarianism, etc. Shall I select squares that include riders/passengers but not also their conveyance? Was reminded of my uncertainty about this when reading this recent post by @Wilshire to the Technology community.

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

Nice try robot

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn't know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.

[–] thouartfrugal@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Thank you for the insight. Having little understanding of the purposes of CAPTCHA beyond what is implied by the acronym, I would be concerned if what seems implied in this comment thread were actually true. Clearly there's a bit of tongue-in-cheek, but it seems reasonable to me as a layman that some implementations could produce data usable to train autonomous driving systems. I realize it's possible there's no simple answer to my original question, and wouldn't be the first time I've overthought something.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Is the rider a bicycle?

[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 9 points 5 months ago

I do not include the rider when I get bicycle or motorcycle cycle CAPTCHAs. Sometimes it's correct, sometimes it's incorrect.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

01010010 01100101 01100100
01110010 01110101 01101101

[–] thouartfrugal@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

$ echo "$((2#01010010)) $((2#01100101)) $((2#01100100)) $((2#01110010)) $((2#01110101)) $((2#01101101))"

82 101 100 114 117 109

Reads 'Redrum' in ASCII. A reference to The Shining, I suppose. If there's a joke it's lost on me, sorry. Was kinda fun spending 10min decoding that, though :)

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice, glad you enjoyed it.
I was just going off of what if OP was a bot trying to trick us into solving the captcha. Went with redrum cuz it's evil, and more importantly, it was short. Didn't want to spam a long comment for a silly joke.

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Op is totally a bot lol

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago

Those are specific items. I don't see why you would include people.

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

I don't include the rider. More confusing are stairs and crosswalks: where do they start and end? Often, there is no crosswalk on the picture but you have to select other road markings to continue. So it doesn't really matter.

[–] Dukeofdummies@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

I always include the rider because the picture of the bike is on the street. A bike or motorcycle on a street is "everything I do not want to hit".

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Don't they have an ai for that? Or is it something the billion dollar systems still can't manage?

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

You know the captchas are training the AI, right?

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I would love it if someone coded a plugin that solved all of these captchas for me.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I could probably pay someone $50 a pop to solve it for me for the rest of my life and not reach even 1billion.