'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).

Comments

I tried it

[Junta]

"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.

Re:Our Robot Overlords

[Oswald McWeany]

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.

According to Google's reCaptcha,

[jenningsthecat]

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.

Resolving an already-solved problem

[93 Escort Wagon]

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