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Does warmer mean temperature? Color? Something else?

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  • I assume this just means "pick inside" without saying it directly. The sample photo is of an inside space. No? The two in the middle row, I assume, are the "correct" answer.

    Often the correct answer is only half the puzzle - how you answer (mouse movement) also can be to determine things

    • No, there's far more depth to that. The goal isn't for you to prove yourself human, the goal is to teach an AI how to "think more human".

      1, 2 and 7 are obviously cold. They're oustide, with no "warm" colour lighting.

      3 and 6 are both green houses, the green house could be considered "warm", but 3 has light on the inside. This is perhaps a test against AI readers. To a human, they both seem warm inside, but an AI might differentiate based on the lighting.

      9 is a dark brown house, but 8 is a light brown house that is illuminated by external lighting. This contrasts with 3 and 6, because 6 has external lighting but it does not illuminate much.

      4 and 5 are both internal shots. 4 is light and airy, meanwhile 5 is a bit more grey - but then, grey is the fashion these days.


      All in all this is a bullshit test made up by bullshit people looking to get a bullshit result, with which they hope to make money off of.

      You're working to help them make more money, meanwhile they don't pay you for your labor. They also collect data from your connection to their servers - as well as the website you're trying to access, you will almost certainly be connecting to at least 2 other servers to deliver this hcaptcha, and thanks to cooperation with the website host hcaptcha will triangulate the internet routing and fingerprinting information to attain a significantly accurate identification of you as an indvidual (which they will then consolidate with whatever other information they have).

      Much like a disgruntled worker might "phone it in", or work within the requirements of their paid employment, or "quiet quit"; you should limit and perhaps even poison the output you give in proportion to what you're being paid for your labor.

      The goal isn't to satisfy captcha, the goal is to get passed it while giving as little commercial value as they compensate you for.

      Your data has value. If it didn't, then Facebook and Google wouldn't be amongst the wealthiest businesses in the world. You own the value they establish themselves with, they just claim a license.

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