This Captcha

"Please select all images which evoke melancholy as opposed to existential dread."

I love how so many of these images meant to fool bots are literally generated by AI

I'd be with you if it weren't so obvious.

The most surprising thing is how you and some commenters dont see how obvious and dead simple the answer is

Like, should they show you a block of ice and a fire next time?

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

If you're wondering why does it seem so strange, it's because the learning model is actually hyper sophisticated now. It knows what a bus, a bicycle, and a sailboat looks like, now it's asking for comparative assessments of complex images. It clearly understands that snow is covering houses and that snow is cold.

There's an example at the top along with the instructions.

This ain't exactly the Mississippi.

Great, now they expect you to be thinking about lighting temperature terms. People who don’t do photography or haven’t read light bulb boxes won’t know wtf this means.

Is it the one that's on fire?

That's exactly what the model is trying to learn.

It's the two that aren't outside in the snow.

It's the "of one type" that gets me - to me that says I should be examining either the outdoor or the indoor pictures, not comparing between those two types of picture. So I should somehow pick the warmest outdoor or warmest indoor pictures.

I worry about commenters in this post that seem to take this as some sort of highly complex problem verging on philosophical rather than a silly little riddle to go through as fast as possible to get to the primary part of website.

Whole lot of AIs in this thread.

Go home, robot, you're drunk

I always click randomly on the first 2 attempts to mislead the AI. Hopefully you did the same, and when the robots come to kill us the grease will freeze up and they won't be able to move.

Numbering left to right, top to bottom, I think the answer should be 3, 5, 6, 9.

Fuck you for trying to get me to train your AI. If you want my work, fucking pay me.

Edit: To be clear, I think those answers would be most likely to almost seem correct to an alrgorithm, but actually break their objective for training.

You have to touch the screen. The one thing bots can't do.

Why the hell are these needed

Wait until it has us picking between Good images and Bad ones, to train the AI

I got one the other day that had the third column of images completely cut off on mobile. Didn't matter what browser I tried. I had to wait until I could get to a desktop to try and access the site.

Only number 3 conveys the concept of warmth to me. A wintry scene contrasted with orange tinged light visible through house windows is a classic trope to evoke warmth and cosiness. The interiors are undoubtedly a physically higher temperature at the location of the photographer, but that is not being communicated visually by the picture.

What "of one type" means, I have no clue.

Theyre no longer trying to keep bots out. They're trying to keep humans out. This is exactly the type of thing a bot would be best at. They can probably tell you the estimated temperature to 3 decimal places of each picture.

ITT: lemmings who don't know about color temperature