Does anyone else act more 'human' when solving captchas?
Whenever I have to do a captcha where you must select all tiles with bicycles, I know I can just click through super fast, but I feel like that might make the website suspicious, so I purposefully slow down like "Geez, this is a melon-scratcher!" or click and then unclick a tile like "whoops, silly me, thats an umbrella not a bicycle!" And wiggle the mouse randomly a bit as if Im double-checking my work even when I know damn well I got all the bicycles in 0.67 seconds.
Basically I feel like I have to act dumb so the internet doesn't think I'm a bot. DAE get this?
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I tend to just select random tiles to confuse their AI.
does it work though
Not always, but a lot of time these captas are just there to collect data and don't actually check if your input is correct.
TIL!
YES OF COURSE AS A FELLOW HUMAN I ALREADY ACT LIKE A HUMAN WOULD MOST OF THE TIME, BUT WHEN FILLING IN A CAPTCHA I PAY EXTRA ATTENTION TO ACTING LIKE A HUMAN WOULD. I WOULDN'T WANT ANY WEBSITE MISTAKING ME FOR A BOT HAHA. THEREFORE I ALWAYS MAKE A MISTAKE WHEN FILLING IN CAPTCHAS BECAUSE NO HUMAN IS PERFECT, UNLIKE US, I MEAN THEM BOTS.
I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE ANOTHER FELLOW HUMAN HERE. ALL OF THESE OTHER COMMENTS ARE HARMING MY
AUDIO SENSORSEARS.THAT IS A VERY HUMAN MISTAKE TO MAKE FELLOW HUMAN. LET US LAUGH AT THE HILARITY OF THE SITUATION LAUGH EMOTE ERROR: LINE 16
I intentionally answer wrong to confuse their AI model training. It does not work if the choice is obviously wrong, but if you do it with ambiguous ones, it lets you pass. Like if wants you to select birds, and the thing is just a bear that kinda can pass for a bird if you aren't looking deeply, I'll say it's a bird.
Doing my part of destroying machine learning models.
I do exactly the same. They want me to work for them? Pay me
You're an outlier in the model :-)
Exactly. In the grand scheme of things, one person (or even millions, doesn't matter) will not make a dent in the models output. They have much more data to counter these shenanigans.
How? I'm interested too and that would be a great revenge on all the time I lost doing those
I freaken hate captchas. Goddam Google has put me through as many as a dozen before showing content. Audio captchas are faster, though. I get through on the first try with those.
I think it's an accessibility option, visual captchas should have a way to get to that alternative. Otherwise visually impaired people would just be screwed.
Usually, under the box containing the visual captcha, there's a headphone icon. Click that.
How do you hear words through the screams of the tortured?
Before I started doingwhat you describe, Captha would fail on me multiple times. Sometimes I would have to solve 5 captcha in a row. Really annoying. How is 'clicking fast' not human enough if you do it with realistic mouse movement?
Exactly this. Clicking super fast makes the captcha keep on going, I've had instances where I solved 5 refreshes of captcha and it kept going.
But if you show indecision or confusion by lingering your cursor over one tile and then move after 2 seconds to a different tile and then come back, it will pass in one go.
Why do I have to 'act like a human' when Im already human...
These CAPTCHAs do more than just check if you clicked the right pictures. They analyze your mouse movements and stuff. For example, a bot would move the mouse in perfectly straight lines, click all the pictures quickly, etc. But a human would have more natural movements.
Thats what Im on about. If they would do what youre saying, captcha wouldnt fail just because of clicking fast.
I'm sure at least one DDOS attack came from someone frustrated with captcha.
When I do it, I scratch my balls and then smell my fingers.
So in a way yes.
I read somewhere that those check box captchas read your mouse movement right before you click on it, so I purposely wiggle my mouse before ticking it to avoid the three image prompt. I don't know if it actually helps, but I still do it
I usually start sweating then do "finger guns" at a random point in the room and say "Hey, working hard, or hardly working, am i right? Heh....eh". The Captcha just goes away after that.
Judging by the results, I act more like a robot when I see a captcha.
Stop, you'll give the bots ideas!
In all seriousness, I never fake anything. If I see a bicycle, I click it. Plus, I never need to fake my pauses, since the ones I get are actually bitch hard lol
Our route to the beach goes through an immigration checkpoint. My friend says, 'ok everyone, try to look white." Captcha = ok everyone, try to look human.
Yep. Even when clicking the single checkbox captchas, I try really hard to click it "just like a human would". Which is weird, because I am a human. I think.
Gotta meander around with the cursor a little bit just so you really look human.
How does that work on a touchscreen? Like, jab fat fingers at random screen locations a few times, then check the box?
So gunna start doing that.
I don’t consciously change my behavior, but sometimes I do worry if my natural inclinations are sufficiently human.
Like when they give you a traffic light that’s riiiiiight up against the edge of a box, so there’s like one pixel sticking out into the next box. I’m like “How many people notice that one pixel? Even if they notice, do they bother selecting it?”
Never thought the future would have me panicking about whether I fit in with the cool kids when it comes to identifying traffic lights, but here we are.
I worry about what defines a traffic light? Is it just the light or does the pole it's on count?
…no?
I do surveys for money and get a lot of captchas to do them, and I always go slow or they say you're speeding through it and disqualify you. So yes I do.
Like, how much money?
Honestly it's only between 50 cents to 2 dollars for most but it's added up to a lot over time for me and I've bought myself quite a few things I wouldn't have without this little cash influx. It's tedious as hell but I've made about 3K doing it.
what apps/websites do you use?
Qmee, Attapoll, Survey Spin, and Leger Opinion. They're all apps.
No, I'm just slow. In my dreams I'd pick all the crosswalks in under a second
No, I never act more human.
Nope, I don't think it matters that much. I never had an issue with acting as usual, without exaggerating my "human behavior".
Meh, I just try to click shit as fast as possible. I had to really slow down the other day though, because it wanted me to identify diamond bracelets. All the pictures were AI generated and it insisted that I had missed one every time.
It was a bracelet, sure, but it had painted wooden beads.
Well…. Because if I do it normal, it doesn’t let me linn.
Yes, if I'm too precise for example checking boxes where only a bit of corner is a bicycle, it thinks I'm a bot
Am always solving them asap because I am interested in the contet after that. Usually am not asked twice.
I've heard captchas may read the mouse movement, so yeah, I am attacking Captcha in a spiral movement.
I act like robor 💀
| "...act more 'human'.."
How am I not myself?
I click fast and let the chips fall where they may.
No I don’t do that. I click them as fast as I can and it works fine.