CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by joijoiwejrr on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:25AM (#25227331)

I used to have fun filling in those reCAPTCHAs with incorrect answers. They would show you two words, and it was always obvious which word was the actual CAPTCHA test and which was the OCR input, because the former would be warped into a funny shape while the latter was always a rectangular block of normal text. So I'd type in the correct answer for the warped word, and something like "fuckface" or "cocksucker" for the regular text, and it would be accepted.

I like to think that somewhere out there on Google Books, my efforts have resulted in an innocuous word being replaced with something offensive.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by Normille on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:16AM (#25228061)

Before I discovered the Buster plugin, I used to try to be as unhelpful as possible in my forced Google AI training sessions.

I'd use the audio option in the reCraptcha and then see how little of what I heard I could get away with actually entering into the form. Often it sufficed to just type one word out of the entire audio clip or even enter a word which sounded similar [eg. audio clip says "tranced", I write "transit"]. The most satisfying ones of all where when, after listening to a complete sentence containing either word, I could pass the reCraptcha by simply typing "the" or "an" into the form.

One of the things that I find slightly disappointing about Buster is that it types in the entire sentence, when solving the reCraptcha. I hate to think Google are under the impression I've suddenly started trying harder!

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by varjag on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:32AM (#25227383)

Probably not, as statistically your answers are filtered out as noise. Remember, hundreds of people were getting the same images.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by sireat on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:15AM (#25228050)

A literal oldie but goodie: https://wraabe.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/an-ocr-cliche-into-h...

Granted this is mostly a kerning issue.

Without wider textual context the correct answer is hard to determine.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by kthxbye123 on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:22AM (#25227725)

What a sad way to indulge the urge for petty vandalism. At least graffiti carries some risk and sex appeal.

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