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(Actual capture. I failed to solve it.)

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[–] aMockTie@piefed.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What in the AI dystopian future kind of BS is that?

Also I hate to pick nits, but it's technically "CAPTCHA" and not "capture." It's supposed to be an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought that these had been cracked by AI already so I'm not quite sure why we're even being presented with it.

To train AI to solve them

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

Usually they're still used to label images for training AI

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is a screen capture of this ridiculous test though

[–] aMockTie@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh true! "Actual capture" sounds a bit strange to me if it's referring to a screen capture, but it's entirely possible that was OP's intent and I misunderstood.