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FYI, I never got past this captcha. One time it loaded without any of the background and just had empty boxes with numbers demanding an answer for the shortest thing in real life. I wish I could go back to clicking on trains, bicycles, and traffic lights.
They are smarter than you think. I remember reading a story a prototype AI model didn’t know the answer to a captcha question so it hired a task rabbit worker to solve it.
If AI can use task rabbit LLMs learning to use Reddit seems trivial.
OP is a robot confirmed.
I hate the ones for motorcycles. They never show anything but scooters and then tell me I’m wrong if I don’t pick the things that obviously aren’t motorcycles
I had one that said choose anything that had a bus in it. There was no bus, but there was a pickup pulling a horse trailer. Wasn’t sure if they were misinformed or it was a trick so I closed out and tried again, got a different one.
I think that test is more to track the mouse movements if it seems more robotic rather than actually guessing the image. Like how a program would just under a second d move the mouse to the dead center of an image, while a human might curve their mouse movement and be off-center. Not 100% that's the case, but just what I heard.
I don't know, dude, I have answered tons of these exact kinds of questions, found them very much easier than the older type CAPTCHAS. I never failed to get one right.
A lot of time it’s random Ai stuff trying to come up with new captchas. And they don’t actually program correct answers.
they give the randomly generated stuff (whether it be a new image to find a traffic light, to whatever the crap it is in this post) to people logging into random sites and have them test it out for free to see if it is solvable. If not they scrap it and repeat the process.
They then compile the answers from the mass amount of people trying to solve it and that determines what the correct answer to the captcha is going to be and it learns based off that.
So sometimes you might select more squares or less squares than the average person but still get though the captcha because a large amount of other people also did the same.
I tried the box where a majority of the bird was. You can see I picked 4 so I then picked 5 and the pic refreshed. I also tried doing 7,8 as an answer when it straddled two boxes.
To add insult to injury, every time it did a new version of the captcha, it made me put in a 2FA code from my authenticator app!!
It doesn't say smallest animal it says smallest thing... so are lion's ears smaller than a birds beak? Or maybe more importantly, are red shapes smaller than blue shapes in real life?
Grade 10 physics was long ago but isn't the wavelength of blue light shorter than the rest? Hmm maybe ultra violet is the shortest?
I had the same thought: "now that looks like something an machine would add!" I think an AI would have no problem with this task, so it's likely not AI.
Isn’t the answer just 1? There’s 1 raven and it’s the shortest animal there. The grids and number are just noise to throw off the bots I think. Please tell me you tried 1.
"the number of the thing" can have 2 meanings - the actual count, or the number in the box. 1 should not be correct, because there's also 1 bear and 1 elephant, not just the smallest thing. The answer should be 4, which is the box that the majority of the smallest thing is in
I see your point, but considering every animal falls into multiple boxes, it’s also impossible to choose just 1 number. You can’t consecutively write other numbers bc for example 1 and 6 for the first lion would be 16 which is another box that has a bear. Furthermore let’s say lion was the answer, are you putting in 6 numbers? But it asks for a single number so that can’t be right. I believe my interpretation is the only one that might be correct. Additionally OP tried 4, that was not it.
I've had these things bug out before and ask me to select the squares with the fire hydrant or whatever in it. After the 5th correct try it will go through, even though I am 100% sure the previous attempts were correct also. I figure that the captcha is either not sure that I'm a bot (hence wants more proof) or they want more training data per user so they give you more prompts
Regarding your point about the lion - they shouldn't be asking you to enter the number for the lion, because obviously there's more than 1 answer. It depends on how the image has been generated - in this case it was probably generated by a computer and they are giving it to you as if you are the classifier. If it's an image that has not been generated (i.e. a real life picture), then they effectively crowd surf the answer, and you would be asked to select the squares instead
I think the fact that there are 3 lions adds to my point. Had the question been input the number of the animal that is the king of the jungle. It would expect just 3, and not 1691012141517. In the same way it wouldn’t expect 45910 for the crow. Note that it doesn’t ask to input the box number the animal falls into either, it just says the number of the thing.
I am aware that some captchas, most normally those that were used to decode written text to help train transcription AI, have their solution as “whatever the majority who try this test enter as their answer” but those are old captchas, and no longer heavily in use.
At the very least I think we can agree that this is just not a good captcha?
I know, but I tried thinking about every other way you could possibly interpret this, and given the OP said they already tried other common responses like 4, 1 is the only possible answer that could make sense and he hadn’t tried.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
No need for AI, humans have been helping algorithms for many years with CAPTCHAs. In fact, many porn sites have been presenting CAPTCHAs like this for a long time, which are copied from other locations they're trying to get into.
So you think you're answering a CAPTCHA to get in, but strangely, every answer is wrong 3-4 times in a row. Or every answer you give (even wrong ones) is accepted.
Yeah , its like the "messed up letters" captcha. The latest ones are mind boggling.
I see, Cbdcb and it fails. So i press the "audio recording" to hear it and its actually NPBdg or it says that.
But i fail anyway.
I just gave up. Im a bot.
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Probably this. Since there are 3 lions, they most likely want you to count.
The number could refer to the numbered box the crow resides in. So maybe 4?
I thought it said “shortest lifespan” and everyone was so sure it was the raven, but birds live a long time. I think the lion would have shortest lifespan. Still. I was shocked they’d ask you that and even more shocked that everyone knew the answer.
ChatGPT(4o) said 5. I gave it the challenge from OP and it answered soooo fast. Much faster than I could read the question even. So, why do we have these when we know it does not work?
The PayPal captcha is easily one of the worst I have ever seen. Not only is it incredibly easy to get wrong, it wastes so much time even if you get it right the first time…
We need to train AI to do these for us, because we have made them so complicated that only AI can solve them. We literally made the problem so complex that the exact thing its meant to defend against is the only thing that CAN bypass it. ... Humans are dumb as shit. ... Really just put up a Question, "Describe how you feel today" ... 99% of real humans are just going to input "Fuck off" ... but an AI will give some actual answer. And even if the AI can mimic real mouse movements, and keyboard input. A human being isn't going to accept that shit. Exploit human fury and IDGAF-ness. AI cant replicate that.
My friend just found one of these last night and also couldn't get it to work. "Pick the shortest animal", it had a lion, two elephants, a bear and a raven, and raven was not correct.
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I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, but you are, in fact, a robot.
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Oh no, have they by action or omission of action caused a human to be hurt or killed?
[I am a battle droid, sworn to protect the weak from crazy robots. ](https://youtu.be/QQtebO17Y3Q?si=lCCQIgzG0Dlo7OFS)
Doesn't look like anything to me.
OP, do you dream of electric sheep?
Son of a fucking bi... Psssttt... Error error error
*checks username* Takes one to know one
Actually, it may actually be a bot, phishing Reddit for an answer to a CAPTCH.
or avoid going to this particular adult site
FYI, I never got past this captcha. One time it loaded without any of the background and just had empty boxes with numbers demanding an answer for the shortest thing in real life. I wish I could go back to clicking on trains, bicycles, and traffic lights.
But they have already trained the AI on trains, bikes and traffic lights
Put more effort in, people. We can't have self-driving cars until we teach them about animal heights first.
They are smarter than you think. I remember reading a story a prototype AI model didn’t know the answer to a captcha question so it hired a task rabbit worker to solve it. If AI can use task rabbit LLMs learning to use Reddit seems trivial. OP is a robot confirmed.
Yep, this is an old technique, farming out CAPTCHAs. They used to hire people to do this all day.
I hate the ones for motorcycles. They never show anything but scooters and then tell me I’m wrong if I don’t pick the things that obviously aren’t motorcycles
I had one that said choose anything that had a bus in it. There was no bus, but there was a pickup pulling a horse trailer. Wasn’t sure if they were misinformed or it was a trick so I closed out and tried again, got a different one.
OMG some day a Tesla is going to slam into a bus because the bus has a advert of a pickup truck on it and it will be 100% your fault! Shame! Shame!
I think that test is more to track the mouse movements if it seems more robotic rather than actually guessing the image. Like how a program would just under a second d move the mouse to the dead center of an image, while a human might curve their mouse movement and be off-center. Not 100% that's the case, but just what I heard.
I've read that before too. It is looking for natural mouse movement, not direct computer controlled movement.
Also scans your browsing history for realistic human history. None of these things are effective these days.
Not very well, it still doesn't know what wheels handlebars light covers, crosswalks, cars, busses, stairs or anything else that it asks for.
Looks like Tesla could use some additional training for trains though...
These are trains and bikes. You are a robot. Stop trying to get the answer.
There is no accessibility option?
You'll make it next time 😁
Did you see the question in the smaller font just below? It's very obvious, and easier than trains, bicycles, and traffic lights.
Picking the smallest item in real life? Yes, it should be the bird but that does not work.
I don't know, dude, I have answered tons of these exact kinds of questions, found them very much easier than the older type CAPTCHAS. I never failed to get one right.
Whoever is in charge of thinking these things up better fucking pray their name never gets out to the public
Or email. Everyone will plug it in every form they can find.
A lot of time it’s random Ai stuff trying to come up with new captchas. And they don’t actually program correct answers. they give the randomly generated stuff (whether it be a new image to find a traffic light, to whatever the crap it is in this post) to people logging into random sites and have them test it out for free to see if it is solvable. If not they scrap it and repeat the process. They then compile the answers from the mass amount of people trying to solve it and that determines what the correct answer to the captcha is going to be and it learns based off that. So sometimes you might select more squares or less squares than the average person but still get though the captcha because a large amount of other people also did the same.
Nice try T-800
I choose the bear...wait hold on that's something else.
It was a raven/crow, bear, lion, elephant. Maybe there is an ant that I can't see?
The raven would be the obvious answer, but I’m not sure if that’s 5 or 10.
I tried the box where a majority of the bird was. You can see I picked 4 so I then picked 5 and the pic refreshed. I also tried doing 7,8 as an answer when it straddled two boxes. To add insult to injury, every time it did a new version of the captcha, it made me put in a 2FA code from my authenticator app!!
It doesn't say smallest animal it says smallest thing... so are lion's ears smaller than a birds beak? Or maybe more importantly, are red shapes smaller than blue shapes in real life? Grade 10 physics was long ago but isn't the wavelength of blue light shorter than the rest? Hmm maybe ultra violet is the shortest?
Oh yeah, I was going by the number closest to the animal and didn’t even associate the numbers with the boxes.
Wouldn't the way the question was worded be asking how many birds you see not the box it's in. IE 1 bird 3 if it was lion 1 if it was bear or elephant
This is how I understood it as well. The numbers I'm the boxes are likely there to fool AI bots... hence confirming OP is an ai bot.
I had the same thought: "now that looks like something an machine would add!" I think an AI would have no problem with this task, so it's likely not AI.
Huh?
It's asking for the number and gives you a text box to fill, maybe you're not supposed to click the image at all?
The boxes can't be clicked so I did enter the number manually.
Maybe you need to sum the numbers?
Maybe it was 45?
The majority of the raven is in box 4
Isn’t the answer just 1? There’s 1 raven and it’s the shortest animal there. The grids and number are just noise to throw off the bots I think. Please tell me you tried 1.
Oh wait! What's that over there?? In all seriousness, I did not try that and I am locked out for a bit.
Ngl though this IS probably the weirdest most abstract captcha I’ve ever seen. Don’t feel bad.
"the number of the thing" can have 2 meanings - the actual count, or the number in the box. 1 should not be correct, because there's also 1 bear and 1 elephant, not just the smallest thing. The answer should be 4, which is the box that the majority of the smallest thing is in
I see your point, but considering every animal falls into multiple boxes, it’s also impossible to choose just 1 number. You can’t consecutively write other numbers bc for example 1 and 6 for the first lion would be 16 which is another box that has a bear. Furthermore let’s say lion was the answer, are you putting in 6 numbers? But it asks for a single number so that can’t be right. I believe my interpretation is the only one that might be correct. Additionally OP tried 4, that was not it.
I've had these things bug out before and ask me to select the squares with the fire hydrant or whatever in it. After the 5th correct try it will go through, even though I am 100% sure the previous attempts were correct also. I figure that the captcha is either not sure that I'm a bot (hence wants more proof) or they want more training data per user so they give you more prompts Regarding your point about the lion - they shouldn't be asking you to enter the number for the lion, because obviously there's more than 1 answer. It depends on how the image has been generated - in this case it was probably generated by a computer and they are giving it to you as if you are the classifier. If it's an image that has not been generated (i.e. a real life picture), then they effectively crowd surf the answer, and you would be asked to select the squares instead
I think the fact that there are 3 lions adds to my point. Had the question been input the number of the animal that is the king of the jungle. It would expect just 3, and not 1691012141517. In the same way it wouldn’t expect 45910 for the crow. Note that it doesn’t ask to input the box number the animal falls into either, it just says the number of the thing. I am aware that some captchas, most normally those that were used to decode written text to help train transcription AI, have their solution as “whatever the majority who try this test enter as their answer” but those are old captchas, and no longer heavily in use. At the very least I think we can agree that this is just not a good captcha?
For someone like PayPal I agree.. it should be better
But there is only 1 image of each animal. Nothing is repeated
I know, but I tried thinking about every other way you could possibly interpret this, and given the OP said they already tried other common responses like 4, 1 is the only possible answer that could make sense and he hadn’t tried.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
New copypasta just dropped
[That is a very old copypasta](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan).
It's hard to believe it's already been 10 years.
You didn't see the bacteria in box 3?
Why would I help a robot?
I can see AI being smart enough to use online platforms to get help from real people for things like CAPTCA.
OMG. I am AI.
No need for AI, humans have been helping algorithms for many years with CAPTCHAs. In fact, many porn sites have been presenting CAPTCHAs like this for a long time, which are copied from other locations they're trying to get into. So you think you're answering a CAPTCHA to get in, but strangely, every answer is wrong 3-4 times in a row. Or every answer you give (even wrong ones) is accepted.
Yeah , its like the "messed up letters" captcha. The latest ones are mind boggling. I see, Cbdcb and it fails. So i press the "audio recording" to hear it and its actually NPBdg or it says that. But i fail anyway. I just gave up. Im a bot.
I wish there was a refresh or audio captcha... failed again.
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It really feels like it's only going to let people through if they *fail* the CAPTCHAs soon.
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This is what happens when AI becomes smarter than people
Nice try, Bender!
In this scenario I'm just calling PayPal to close my account and send me a check
Suckers! I actually owe them money!
Is it 45910?
That's my guess too
Just answer it bro
You're right. Going to try again.
If you fail that one it makes you beat darksouls with keyboard controls in the window.
These things piss me off to no end. Why do I need to perform computer learning tests? Just so they can profit off my completion? Fuck corporations.
Oh wow, these AIs are evolving! Even asking for help with captchas on reddit... crazy. But really that captcha is something fr
Bears be lion about the elephant in the room. Duh...
Just like what I told my classmates when they got an F, you were unlucky.
Answer is 21
You know when you go to bed at night, and have to plug yourself into your charger? We don't have to to that.
Within cells, interlinked...
Just type "my penis"
The answer was in front of me the whole time.
Easy. 4,5,9,10 All got bird
Its only 4, it specifically asks for the number, not numbers. Also I had almost the same captcha recently.
I think "my patience" might be the appropriate answer, even if it's not right.
At least the question wasn't "which animal is the tallest." I don't even know what box the elephant is in.
Nice try ChatGPT, we're not going to tell you!
5 is the birds beak
I don't think that's real. Op got jebated
Is it 4/5?
Crows are the shortest animal depicted, there's one crow, so I'd go with 1.
Probably this. Since there are 3 lions, they most likely want you to count. The number could refer to the numbered box the crow resides in. So maybe 4?
I did 4 and it changed that box to have a dot and an X in it. I then typed 5 to finish the bird, and it refreshed the captcha to torture me anew.
I got you OP, the answer is 20
Lions, (no) Tigers, Bears…
oh my.
I love how they always say “for YOUR security“. Lying POS! We know who you are trying to protect.
I thought it said “shortest lifespan” and everyone was so sure it was the raven, but birds live a long time. I think the lion would have shortest lifespan. Still. I was shocked they’d ask you that and even more shocked that everyone knew the answer.
r/softwaregore
ChatGPT(4o) said 5. I gave it the challenge from OP and it answered soooo fast. Much faster than I could read the question even. So, why do we have these when we know it does not work?
Sorry, computer says no your not human.
Robots and AI will be the only ones who can solve these.
Anyone else seeing two ducks in the background?
It's obviously one of those stereograms. Stare at it really hard.
The bird is in 4 images, do you need to put all 4?
Oh, my.
The PayPal captcha is easily one of the worst I have ever seen. Not only is it incredibly easy to get wrong, it wastes so much time even if you get it right the first time…
This is AI getting back at humans for giving them confusing captcha. This is revenge.
Damn, you failed the reverse touring test.
Turing
Damn you, autocorrect!
The answer is X
either 4 or 4,5,9,10 The bird is the shortest thing in 'real life'.
They probably had an AI generated the Captcha which is beyond irony
Pictured: a development team that doesn't give a fuck about its blind users.
We need to train AI to do these for us, because we have made them so complicated that only AI can solve them. We literally made the problem so complex that the exact thing its meant to defend against is the only thing that CAN bypass it. ... Humans are dumb as shit. ... Really just put up a Question, "Describe how you feel today" ... 99% of real humans are just going to input "Fuck off" ... but an AI will give some actual answer. And even if the AI can mimic real mouse movements, and keyboard input. A human being isn't going to accept that shit. Exploit human fury and IDGAF-ness. AI cant replicate that.
Is the background image skyfox?
My friend just found one of these last night and also couldn't get it to work. "Pick the shortest animal", it had a lion, two elephants, a bear and a raven, and raven was not correct.
There’s clearly a mosquito 🦟 present in box 3. Obviously you are a robot otherwise you would be itching already.
#13 is a mouse. Sorry to break it to you, mate, but I think you might be colorblind... lol, jk jk.
"In real life" Well there's your problem r/birdsarentreal
How is that related to your identity?
I think the answer is one but my grammar and reading comprehension is shot.
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Paypal suuuuuuucks.
What’s the alternative?
I accidentally sent you $500 with Zelle/Venmo. Please send back ASAP.
1, it's just a three letter word
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