CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
What’s more fun is being American and intentionally misinterpreting the captcha. Select all street lights? Then think of how that question could be translated and misread in another language. Then select everything that would qualify as a light on the street: lamps, car headlights, crossing signals, et al.<p>Sometimes I select a square that I think the machine placed in the set to get more certainty but doesn’t match. For example, “select all chimneys”. If it presents me with an image of a house in the distance that has an object infront&#x2F;behind it that is not a chimney but due to positioning and image quality it appears to be a chimney I will select it.<p>Captcha is a game.<p>- For Alphabet&#x2F;Google the game is: mine the public for image recognition data so we can automate a car&#x2F;drone and sell it to said public.<p>- For me the game is: can I play captcha chess with Google’s AI?<p>And if Google flags me as a bot, so what? At any point I know that I can quit playing captcha chess by giving it what it wants for a round or two and I’m trusted again.