Smiling Dogs? Horses Made of Clouds? Captcha Has Gone Too Far
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https://www.wired.com/story/smiling-dogs-horses-made-of-clouds-captcha-has-gone-too-far/
When Jared Bauman was asked to look at nine dog pictures and identify which ones were smiling as part of a captcha test to log in to a website a few weeks ago, he was stumped. "To be honest, I had a bit of a moment," the founder of a creative marketing agency in San Diego, California, says. "Do dogs really smile?" Most of the dogs looked neither happy nor sad-some were grimacing, or simply had their mouths open. No one is sure whether dogs can actually smile, meaning that correctly identifying smiling dogs in a captcha is a near-impossible task.
This kind of conundrum is becoming a bigger issue as captchas-tests designed to weed out robot web surfers from humans on websites-have grown increasingly cryptic. The smiling dogs were the final straw for an increasing number of people posting their disbelief on social media in recent months.
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