ReCaptcha - ohhhhhwwww!

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Thats quite fascinating! It always amazes me when people even come up with solutions like this.

Captchas can die, that said, gah I hate them.

Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link

SB

sarahell, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:55 (twelve years ago) link

So in theory you could just type anything in as the second word? So one day in the future somebody could be looking at a transcrtiption from a late 19th century newspaper and read something like this:

"Today, the esteemable inventor and polymath Mister Horatio Ponsonby-Smythe publicly demonstrated his latest invention, a penis."

Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:57 (twelve years ago) link

ReCaptcha - bringing the world's literature and journalism down to the level of the average YouTube commenter, one word at a time...

Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago) link

The problem with ReCaptcha is that if you're feeling lazy you just have to type in the first one.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago) link

I wish all data entry jobs were like that.

Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:06 (twelve years ago) link

You could type in anything as the second word ya, but iirc one guy writing penis is not going to make it believe that's what the word actually is. it takes in loads of recaptchas and then sees which one comes up most often, or something like that. so unless you can convince everyone on the internet to type penis as the 2nd word on all recaptchas, 19th century text will remain penis-free.

Jibe, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:13 (twelve years ago) link

Well, you just typed 'penis' three times, so I'm sure that someone on the internet can raise a penis army.

Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link

its the internet, if you can dream it, some weirdo'll do it !

Jibe, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

I just can't prove I'm human anymore, apparently. Street signs is NEVER correct, cars just keep coming (but some sites only wait for a minute) and I'm not alone.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/recaptcha

StanM, Monday, 27 November 2017 11:16 (six years ago) link

8-]

StanM, Monday, 27 November 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link

moot wins, Time Inc. loses. How 4chan "hacked" recaptcha to manipulate results for the Time 100 poll in 2009.

Sanpaku, Monday, 27 November 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link

six years pass...

Someone needs to calculate how many billions worth of hours humanity has wasted on this fucking recaptcha bullshit over the last 17 years. It's only getting worse.

StanM, Sunday, 29 September 2024 18:04 (one month ago) link


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