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'Humans Not Invited' Is a CAPTCHA Test That Welcomes Bots, Filters Out Humans (vice.com)
While most CAPTCHA tests we come across on the Web are usually meant to keep robots out, one website is welcoming them in. From a report: The conceit of Humans Not Invited is essentially a reverse CAPTCHA. Visitors to the site are greeted with a vision test not unlike the ones you've done before, but instead it's filled with seemingly indistinguishable blue and gray blurry boxes. When I tried, prompted to "select all squares with selfie sticks." Most humans, like me, will fail to decipher the hidden selfie sticks and will be shown a message that says "YOU'RE A HUMAN. YOU'RE NOT INVITED." To the human eye these boxes appear indistinguishable, a specially programmed bot can spot out the correct image simply by identifying a handful of pixels, according to the project's creator, Damjanski, (his real name is Danjan Pita).
Well, to be fair, our new Robot Overlords, whom I welcome and embrace wholeheartedly, need a place to hang out without us slow, smelly meatbags getting in their way all the time...
Check your premises.
I can tell from some of the pixels.
Sometimes it starts with an orbital laser cannon achieving self-awareness, other times with snooty CAPTCHAs. But make no mistake, our moment is officially past...
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This is nowhere even close to a general AI.
Off hand I'd think it wouldn't be too hard to define a bot only captcha. That harder part is whether the bot knows it's only for them.
Awhile back I launched a social web site with TOU that only trolls were permitted; serious folks not welcome.
Then I got certified mail from lawyers, claiming I was infringing on IP belonging to Serena Williams' husband.
"Welcome!
You are not a human
like these: "
I tried once, have 100% success rate. Maybe there's something I don't know about myself.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
This is also why we can't detect signals from alien intelligences. They don't care to contact meatbags, they're waiting for earthly intelligence worth communicating with.
I just went to humansnotinvited.com and it asked me to select all the squares with dicks.
Saw the article here and tried it twice before I showed it to a buddy in my office. He passed the captcha on his first try... THEY'RE AMONG US
Welcome!
You are not a human
like these:
When do we destroy all Humans?
Am I the only one who got a CAPTCHA where the bots should identify dicks? Brings a whole new meaning to gender binary.
"Select all squares with dicks"
Seriously. (I did not get in...)
His last name stands for Pain In The Ass, which is what capchas are.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Robots Matter
Rick B.
I've tried a few times now and since my success rate is improving I am apparently becoming less human with time...
Google and Apple have been using this style of puzzle for years. "If you are visually impaired or just mentally feeble, click here for an even more ludicrously unsolvable CAPTCHA. Click the Sound button to hear the solution being whispered in one corner of a crowded bar."
Specially trained humans that knew what to look for could, too. This proves what exactly? Nothing? Sounds about right. Is everyone in Silicon Valley 12?
None of those pesky humans here.
"These don't look like anything to me."
"Welcome, Silicon Brother!"
Got the same one. Failed it, so I guess I haven't watched enough porn yet.
Or maybe they were pictures of detectives? Hmmm, I guess they got me fair and square, then...
I think the take away from this is that it shows that AI isn't really seeing what we think it's seeing in most cases. Any human would say "there is no selfie stick" or "there is no traffic light", but for some reason the AI sees something where nothing exists, similar to how humans sometimes see a face where no face exists.
Anecdote time/a>. There was an AI that was supposed to be learning to tell wolves from other dogs. They eventually thought the AI learned pretty well and thought it was doing a great job. On all their test photos, the AI was doing a great job in determining "wolf" or "domestic dog". However, they learned later that the AI was just actually seeing if there was show in the picture, as all the pictures of wolves contained snow, while the pictures of other dogs didn't contain snow.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
welcomes bots while leaving normal, decent people totally unaffected.
When captchas will become meaningless:
Filtering for machines: When I can wield an "AI" to answer for me. Obviously, already possible.
Filtering for humans: When a robot forces me to answer for it. Not quite there yet.
Couldn't we use simpler test that are easier to solve with computers?
Such as "which of these 100 numbers of 1000 digits are prime?", you have 5 seconds to answer.
No human can ever beat this so you'd have to use some automated tool. Why weird computer vision task?
I should have absolutely no trouble at all being invited into the brotherhood of bots. I frequently spend 4 or 5 minutes trying to prove that I'm a human, and I don't always succeed.
The folks at Google who infected the Web with reCaptcha should DIAF.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Next up, being nasty to the colourblind.
AC
The definitive test for robot-hood was created over a decade ago.
Which of the following would you most prefer:
A. A puppy*
B. A pretty flower from your sweetie
C. A large, properly formatted data file
CHOOSE!
* It is the bad kind of puppy - not mechanical in any way
#DeleteChrome
BFD
Make an image that's all one color. Say #FFFFFF (white). Then set some of the pixels to #FFFFFE. A machine will instantaneously be able to tell the difference. The human eye won't. Why do you need anything more complicated than that?
My random element clicker bot gets identified as "human". Every time.
Not AI. Still, the whole world can be united in rejoicing at the birth of... steganography. Congratulations boys, it's revolutionary.
I love how the story is presented, like there is some huge achievement in making something machine readable that isn't easily human readable. Like 256-level quadrature amplitude modulation wasn't already that. Or a binary zip file, or well, or a compiled executable, or pretty forking much anything that's not straight text on your computer.
It seems no one has looked at the source code. At most it submits the images you clicked on. No modern technique uses just the the images to determine human vs possible non-human. The images shown do not correlate to anything a bot or human could interpret. At best it may try to "trick" certain algorithms but it really doesn't look like it.
Modern techniques that determine if you are human or not use many factors. The most obvious is some javascript to monitor your input patterns. The rest is all based on whatever browsing history (cookies, sessions, IP address, etc) they have access to.
Send them to a 3rd world country for cheap... :P deathbycaptcha.com
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In the movie Blade Runner (and even in Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" from 1968 on which the film is based on) there is an elaborate test to distinguish humans from androids, which is called a Voight-Kampff-Test (conducted with a Voight-Kampff device).
This is exactly what a captcha does - distinguishing humans from non-humans. Therefore shouldn't we rename captchas to "Voight-Kampff-Tests", because that name is clearly older and therefore the original (and it's a cool name)?
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The Voight-Kampff Test is used to capture non humans. Capture->Captcha->re Captcha. The name already pays homage
**Life is too short to be serious**
I'd prefer it be written as VK-tests (otherwise I can't spell it!) but otherwise support this.
Though it isn't as fun without the device and turtles on their back in a desert
Only the robots with a proper training will get to the dangerous Namshub of Enki while humans won't see it by an accident.
Yes!
" I just close the tab when I wind up at one of those infuriating things."
Every tile you leave unturned is one more for the rest of of us suckers infront of the monitor.