Slashdot Mirror


'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).

4 of 82 comments (clear)

  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
  2. I tried it by Junta · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.
  3. Re:Our Robot Overlords by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

    I've heard that Tinder already uses this technology to populate the female profiles.

    --
    "That's the way to do it" - Punch
  4. Resolving an already-solved problem by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    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