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by f311a 19 days ago
I think Google stopped using such data long time ago. They have been showing hydrants, buses, crosswalks for ages. It's a solved problem to detect them.
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Pretty sure it's a small set of images of each type as well. It's probably easier for a dumb heuristics-based bot to beat it than it is for most people.
It's been proven (https://ics.uci.edu/2023/08/10/new-scientist-bots-are-better...). At this point, we should only respond to queries from users who have failed the captcha.
Right. It says select tiles with cars, bikes or buses and I fail because I recognized one far away. Traffic lights and stairs, if a tile has just a tiny bit of the thing, does that count? I don't think they train on this, they've got their answers and they just want people to feel dumb, I guess.