also from @RAF_Luton:
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There are 4 mines. Counting from the top left: In the second row’s first two spaces and in the third row’s first and last spaces.
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You might actually be indirectly hurting the public and yourself by doing that.
Hopefully Google has strong protections against it, but if Google is using captchas to crowdsource verification of crosswalks, street lights and other important traffic features that will be put in Google maps, then poisoning the data isn’t just revenge against Google, it’s something that may be bad for public safety, and certainly for the convenient use of Google maps, something you yourself may use and count on.
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Safety features should never be crowdsourced, so no I don’t feel bad about this.
Edit: I never use Google anything if avoidable. Certainly never Google maps.
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I find these “so unbearably depressing” because they throw up the things that I generally look at without seeing - Walmarts with 10 acres of asphalt parking lot, beige stucco, 8-lane-4-way intersections. My first reaction is to think “How could anyone live somewhere like that, how sad.” But then I look around…
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these captchas are a major source of cheap AI training data.
you want to get past the captcha, the company wants to train an AI to recognize objects for its automated mapping and self driving car efforts.
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What about hCaptcha? are the challenge images less depressing? Because I find them harder to solve. Am I a robot?
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You’ll never get them right if you follow the instructions literally.
The captcha requests, for example, that you click all the pictures that contain MOTORCYCLES. OK, so two of the squares show rows of parked motorcycles, so each of those contains motorcycles, plural. Another square shows part of one motorcycle. It does not contain motorcycles, it doesn’t even contain one whole motorcycle, just a piece of one. Clearly you’re not supposed to pick that one, right?
And what confidence level should we use? Two pictures clearly have taxis. One contains a yellow car, but the image is cropped so you can’t see anything other than the color that would distinguish it as a taxi rather than just another car. Click it or not?
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I assumed it was more to help train AI to recognize items. If I type “car” into google photos it will show me a bunch of pictures it thinks are of cars.
Something like this:
If that is really the goal, then present images and descriptions that match the location of the person doing the checking. The world does not look like America.
Until then, I am going to poison the well as much as I can.
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yes, I know medium is a crap site nowadays… but a link to the source article would be cool.
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Looks like they forgot to turn spellcheck on. That’s a crowd of terrorists.
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It’s based on the comments by this bag of excrement:
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What bothers me is what a terrible acronym it is. Completely Automated Personal Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart? Somebody was either trying too hard, or not hard enough.
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I try to enter these kinds of captchas incorrectly on purpose, the idea for them is to sometimes check for something they know the answer to and sometimes to ask for it to help train the computers so sometimes you can get away with it.
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Obviously they only use that one on users from Serbia:
Hahahahahahahahabaha! Google verifying data! That’s a good one!
I remember GMaps used to have 30 Harold’s Cross roads in the vicinity of the real one about a KM from their European headquarters, but none of them were the real one. It took the launch of Apple Maps to get them to fix it. Where I work, a couple of KM from a river is referred to as a quay and no amount of businesses telling them that there is no water nearby will induce them to change it. Last I heard we got to talk to a human who told us it was a traditional name for the area (it wasn’t, people in the past weren’t that stupid. Yes I have maps. Actually, you can look up all the old maps online. Dublin City Council tries to make sense).
Now go looking for 18th century C++ books on Google Books.
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Is a scooter a bicycle? Is a van a car? Is a close up of the front sprocket of a bicycle considered a bicycle or is it just a sprocket? What’s the percentage? I always have a hard time with stuff like this but I try to assume that the AI is not being too literal. But, I also fail these a lot so I’m not sure if I’m failing because I don’t think like the AI or I don’t think like the humans training the AI.
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