Guess I Am Not Human, Then…
Captcha, those ‘Are you human?’ tests usually appear when signing up for services, but now they pop up when you least expect them, like searching for a video on YouTube. Something in the way I use YouTube must be triggering the YouTube beast, as it challenges me to a duel so often it has become a nuisance.
Now I am not dyslexic and my English skills are just fine, so when I noticed I was failing YouTube’s Captcha tests in succession, sometimes passing the test only after my sixth or seventh attempt, I started to get suspicious.
Above are 16 YouTube Captcha tests I personally believe failed recently. Some of them are so simple and obvious that you might think there would be no problem ‘solving’ them – but you’d be wrong. And the fact they need to be quote-unquote solved, is just what’s wrong with the system as these reverse Turing tests are supposed to come natural. Facebook, for example, asks you to type in real words – and I never seem to fail their tests.
Aside:
Apparently Professor Lawrence Lessig has bigger problems with machines going wild. Here is a lecture he gave three days ago titled “Will Technology Change Our World”:
22 June 2010 at 8:06 pm Permalink
youtube’s captcha sucks, it rarely lets me past it, but I did just get past it a minute ago!, I was then forwarded on to the front page of youtube, instead of being redirected to the channel page that I entered, so I re-entered the channel address, hit go and I was greeted with yet another captcha! wtf!, I gave up.
I guess the monkeys finally took over the tubes.
Google killed it in my opinion anyway and their search engine is next to useless when it starts throwing up the same captcha, the internet used to be easy, quick and fun, now it’s mostly slow and annoying, thanks Google ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐
08 July 2010 at 5:20 pm Permalink
Those were easy compared to the ones I got last time….then try the audio and you will here some chinese mutants muttering unintelligible sounds…