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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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[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] pedro@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I do exactly the same. They want me to work for them? Pay me

[–] slugger@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

You're an outlier in the model :-)

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tend to just select random tiles to confuse their AI.

[–] kier@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE ANOTHER FELLOW HUMAN HERE. ALL OF THESE OTHER COMMENTS ARE HARMING MY ~~AUDIO SENSORS~~ EARS.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

ALL OF THESE OTHER COMMENTS ARE HARMING MY ~~AUDIO SENSORS~~ EARS.

THAT IS A VERY HUMAN MISTAKE TO MAKE FELLOW HUMAN. LET US LAUGH AT THE HILARITY OF THE SITUATION LAUGH EMOTE ERROR: LINE 16

[–] riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hazzia@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have never encountered or heard of audio captchas. What does that involve and where do those show up?

[–] Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I think it's an accessability option, visual captchas should have a way to get to that alternative. Otherwise visually impaired people would just be screwed.

[–] riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Usually, under the box containing the visual captcha, there's a headphone icon. Click that.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

How do you hear words through the screams of the tortured?

[–] iamnotacat@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Here you go - scroll down below the code, links to add extension to each browser. When you click the captcha, there's a new button (person with a checkmark) at bottom right of captcha popup. Hit that, and wait a second or two.

The extension will work its magic and make the captcha go away.

No more wondering whether I should pretend to be human, or a bot, or if I need to slow down clicking thru.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do I have to 'act like a human' when Im already human...

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure at least one DDOS attack came from someone frustrated with captcha.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Judging by the results, I act more like a robot when I see a captcha.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

When I do it, I scratch my balls and then smell my fingers.
So in a way yes.

[–] davetansley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] boringbisexual@lib.lgbt 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Today@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Nihilore@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 β€œHow 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.

[–] books@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I worry about what defines a traffic light? Is it just the light or does the pole it's on count?

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

[–] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well…. Because if I do it normal, it doesn’t let me linn.

Nope, I don't think it matters that much. I never had an issue with acting as usual, without exaggerating my "human behavior".

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Am always solving them asap because I am interested in the contet after that. Usually am not asked twice.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

No, I'm just slow. In my dreams I'd pick all the crosswalks in under a second

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I act like robor πŸ’€

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

No, I never act more human.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No I don’t do that. I click them as fast as I can and it works fine.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've heard captchas may read the mouse movement, so yeah, I am attacking Captcha in a spiral movement.