#why the fuck do i have to do a captcha

[paintednettle]

It legitimately took me a half an hour+ to cleanse my algorithm of bullshit. My emails with the reports went from "this posts contains x" to calling out staff for making the report process difficult and to do better.

[horrorsequel]

freaking out cos i can't figure out why my fucking 3ds modding isnt working cos i followed all the fucking guides to the letter and all the system setup worked exactly fine AND i can hard launch the shit still AND all my games and shit are in the directory when i go to data management!! but on the home screen my folders for all my shit are empty and it's only stuff that was already on here and my dsi shit showing up which is almost exclusively pokemon games the last guy put on here so like i did all this work modding the 3ds and all i can do is flipnote. okay.

[theliterarywolf]

Man i really hope that nothing bad happens to AO3.

I know that it is silly to be attached to a fucking fanfiction website, but seeing all the bullshit happening to other places this year (twitter being twitter, Threads and instagram being a mess, Tumblr threatening to become worse just to appease people that don't even use it) it makes me worry for a nonprofit place with a actually good tagging system.

Also, the only other fanfic site i really go to besides it and reaallyy old sites for older fandoms i'm into is Fanfiction.net, and it is annoying as fuck to use it nowdays, especially on mobile (you have to do captcha sooo many times, and you can't really download a fic nor read it all in one page...)

That's what a lot of people either don't understand or refuse to acknowledge when it comes to AO3.

From its ground up, its core purpose is an Archive for transformative works. It's not some Hypnosis Engine to convince people that preying on children is okay; it's not some sort of propaganda machine. It's an Archive for fanfic (and, to an extension, fanart).

But also in its core purpose is the element of self-agency. 'Our Own'. AO3 has one of the best, most comprehensive filtering systems on the internet. That is a fact that can't be denied. And the reason for this filtering system is, of course, for people to be able to see what they want and avoid what they don't.

So, yes, it is just a silly fanfiction site at the end of the day, but the fact that it's one of the few sites on the internet that has stuck to its initial mission statement come hell or high water is why it's so important in the current internet scape. It's also why, whenever the donation drive rolls around, it's so fucking exhausting to see Jimmy and Sally Don'tknowshit making posts about 'oh, why don't people donate to real causes' or 'AO3 really makes a living scamming people'.

[argyleheir]

Drabble - Vamp

[For Spooktober '24 Day 28 | Prompt: Vampire / @dbdpromptober Day 28 | Prompt: tricksters | Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives | Pairing: Edwin/Charles]

"Charles?"

"Yeah, Edwin?"

"Do you know if Jenny changed her Netflix password?"

"She hasn't mentioned it. Why, isn't it working?"

"No, I keep getting an error."

"Area code or phone number?"

"Neither."

"Oh god. CAPTCHA. 'To continue, type the characters you see in the picture.'"

"T – S – Y—"

"That's a V."

"A – A – S – M."

"Error. What the fuck! Edwin… D'you mind if I have a proper go at this?"

"Sure—that's. That can't be legal."

"S'not. That's why it's got pirate in the title. Now: what do you want to watch?"

"Oh…The one with the vampires. Yes, again."

[angel---eater]

Thinking about godstuck Hal ascending to god tier and how having an organic body again would fuck him up. And also why. Because he'd be so proud of his prothesis, so proud. It wouldn't be perfect, he'd still have to do things to maintain it that normal, organic beings wouldn't have to do, but the pros of being tangible would keep outweighing the cons. It wouldn't be perfect but it'd be exactly what he'd want, right down to the length and shape of his fingertips. And ascending wouldn't even give him back his pre-split body, the body he and Dirk had before they made the code for the Auto-Responder, before they even made the brain captcha. This body would be completely foreign to him. Fully adult but half a head shorter, different proportions, different reflexes and senses. I think he'd have a balance problem and would need to relearn to walk and stand a little. He'd tend to prefer to float and/or fly often too, I think.

[g-kat423]

WOW it would be super awesome if the porn/spam bots weren’t currently ruining the Lady Dimitrescu tag. It’s bad enough this site is probably gonna disappear in a couple years and that hardly anyone even talks about Alcina anymore. This is one of the few places to see new content since twitter sucks and TikTok has largely moved on. Ugh. Funny how regular users aren’t allowed to post tasteful nsfw but these bots can just do whatever they want.

I’m just so tired of every site having ridiculous censorship but then they wind up getting overrun by porn bots like why aren’t simple captcha measures stopping them?? Just like how the tumblr live feed at the top of my dash that I can’t get rid of is just full of porn bots. Just get rid of tumblr live no one fucking wants it.

[tricornonthecob]

I snuggled a pony so hard today

LK 111: Postmaster of Ceremonies Benji Franx

(pt1)(pt2)(pt3)(pt4)(pt5)

oooh its one of the S/J flavored episodes today

background art appreciation moment

That is... alot of letters. Holy shit. Surely she missed one or two days. I wonder how much mundane stuff was in between all the "By the way I'm committing treason and am on battlefields and also going a bajillion places unchaperoned with a B O Y my age."

I wonder where the budget went for this episode.

Translation: for the love of christ please stop going to battlefields

There it is I've been looking for this shot so I could do a redraw, also THERE IT IS proof they turned her into a blonde. Either that or she's supposed to be powdered up in this but they usually do white or gray when they're showing powder.

also awww Sarah has the same rebellious hair swoosh.

Anyway I am HERE and RAVENOUS for Phillips content.

This scene keeps happening, y'all sure you wanna keep sending Henri out to pick up the mail.

The gays were having a moment, Henri

James Hiller would 100% have a tiktok where he did shit like flip water bottles upright in increasingly implausible and precarious scenarios.

What is it about being a homo sapiens that when we get bored we try to toss things into other things. 11/10 pastime for the ages.

Moses is the momdad who tells you to go clean your room when you mistakenly complain aloud that you're bored.

Henri that's a felony.

...ok fine, an almost-felony.

hehehaha GAYAE?

Ok but next time I have to read a fucking Captcha I'm getting James to do it.

I mean by now its pretty obvious by their complete lack of surprise such a missive would be addressed to them that the Gazette is a front for a spy agency.

Do you trust your sauce, James?

James, this is why you're not the best field agent.

He's been trying to reach her about her horse's extended warranty.

Henri's the best agent in this outfit. Some respect is due, James!

"Fuck off, James."

Wow someone finally went to check in on Fort Pitt.

James Hiller is the person who clicks the fucking link in the sus email and takes down the whole office.

Take it from the dual-classed Artist/IT Professional. Learn to see the signs of a suspicious email and Don't Fucking Download That Attachment/Clink That Link!

[bobateaboo]

Hello ^-^, so i have a question related to your fic lost and found, if it's no trouble could you tell be a bit about Stencils siblings? I'm not familiar with all the Ink x Error children so I'm a bit lost every time they're mentioned

(also, wow, it's a really good fic, makes me happy every time i see an update)

OH I CAN SO TELL YOU ABOUT STENCIL'S SIBLINGS

ok okokok. Export is the oldest still living at the house, he's about 16 years old. It's his job to travel around the multiverse and fix Au's that would otherwise be beyond repair but honestly, he's not the best at it. He's trying really hard ok, he just can't summon screens to edit the code himself like he should. trust me, he's tried EVERYTHING. he works with another one of my ocs, Indigo, borrowing their power to help worlds like he was born to do

Glaze is by @andizoidart and I love him dearly. My mans is lowkey an asshole but that is why we love him. He's blunt as hell and will do whatever he deems necessary to get what he deems important enough for the effort, i.e rescuing Stencil. He's also the ONLY one the twins will listen to. like, Captcha's big ass clunky clothes? Glaze is the only one who can make him change into something else to wash them. and Copic's habit of kind of drugging people? Glaze is always the one who tells him who to go for.

Copic and Captcha are the chaos twins, with Copic not saying a word most of the time and Captcha being known for yelling his head off at everything that makes him mad, which is most things. Copic knows sign language and everything, he just honest to god doesn't see most people as being worth the trouble to talk to. Both of them are still figuring out their magic since they're so young, but Copic has a lot more of a handle on his than Captcha. So much so that he's made FREQUENT use of his ability to put people to sleep, as you've seen in lost and found

Stencil is usually the one taking care of his younger siblings while Export is out (mans can make a grilled cheese sandwich like nobody's business), so things are a tad bit out of wack in the household with him missing

and Bonus it's my personal headcannon that none of the errink kids can solve an actual captcha. they've got half computer brains, if you show them some squiggly letters it's likely they'll just tell you to fuck off

(also Aaaa thank you so much!! that means so much to hear!!! honestly the only reason I've been able to update so frequently is because of the comments I've been getting, so thank you so much)

[neothing]

Yes the daily/weekly prize pools will change. Considering they've already thrown in stamps and PBs and MPs, doubt it'll be any different going forward. They will rerelease some expensive items. Will it exclusively be items that everybody needs to complete specific stamp albums? No. Keep dreaming.

Yes. In the future.

No. Dom will bring it up to their spiffy new security consultants and this problem will be tossed into the void. They've never seen the letters FC Botter put together in that specific order.

They're not planning to address it. See previous answer^

To the people shouting add captcha to purchase page; when was the last time you looked at someone's UL? Damn is it fucking annoying.

Why would you repost the ONLY question TNT is DEFFINETLY going to answer? Who the fuck are these 23 people that voted for this.

No. It would take a very long time to do/make for an individual anyway. It also needs to be linked into neopets on the backend and TNT won't accept that. Also things like intellectual property rights etc will make it difficult so the simple answer is no.

Fuck! There's another one!

"Sharing an IP address with cheaters". Nothing is being done to prevent cheaters from being frozen if they are on a known IP address of cheaters. (I do think TNT should make appeals open for people in these cases. Are people sure the IP thing is what got them frozen?)

Coconut shy works with ruffle extension. So does Expellibox. The rest are slowly being worked on but are currently not a priority in comparison to NCUC release, NeoPass, the AMAs, and the plot.

Are you cheating? Yes, you might be frozen. But as a normal user? No. TNT wants more people to move to using neopets on mobile.

No. Alice W is. Dom is Tony P. Obviously.

Because they like how busy he makes the website look. stfu. Also, they probably don't know how. :) His dirty little fingers are in everybody else's pie. You wanna be frozen from buying his illicit gains? And if they wipe out his whole schtick you bet you ass you'll never be seeing some of those "its too expensive please RR it" items.

That's the point of an event. Participate for the final prize. Have you not seen the prizes in the last two years? Also, there's always a paintbrush and stamps too. Your challenge of the week is to hit cap.

Who the fuck is Lamp?

Bet big, lose big is the balance. There is a cap of 1mil payout per bet. It would be a bad decision to tank FC just to hinder FC Botter. Not when there's more profitable things like daily/weakly quest log prizes that don't have age restrictions.

No. god forbid they get caught up in another item gen scandal.

Actively? No. It's on the backburner.

No. Restock them. Good luck. Even if they released them, the bots will just get them anyway. Look at SAP.

Paint a snow kad blue. It will go back to it's original form. Same thing for a lot of other petpets. (Not blue, their original 'shade'. Check JN)

It already kind of is. You think TNT actually read your full ticket?

That's sad. You should adopt it. Give it the loving home it deserves.

[pesterloglog]

Autoresponder, Jane Crocker

Act 6, page 4961

TT: Hmm.

GG: Welp, let me have it!

TT: Have what?

GG: A hard time for botching up the pooch!

GG: I think I just locked the door with that muttonheaded stunt. And now that mirrored obelisk is good as gone.

TT: I wasn't going to say nothin'.

TT: Hell, I was asleep at the wheel too while you were busy fucking up, and I have an IQ of, hold on, robo-calculating...

TT: Robo-calculating...

TT: Robo-calculating...

TT: Robo-calculating...

GG: Oh brother.

TT: Robo-calculating...

TT: About 500 billion.

GG: That is really, really robo-smart.

TT: Don't get human-fresh with me, Crocker. I'm about to bring all five hundo-billy points of my stringent cyborg IQ to bear on your dumb problem. Check it out.

TT: I took note of the captcha code to the thing, and recorded a digital flashsnap of its appearance through my photographic silicone memory canals.

TT: Which is to say I looked at eight alphanumeric digits a couple minutes ago, and remembered them.

GG: Ok?

TT: So give the bunny the wallet. I'll have him run back to the house and make you a new obelisk with the same grist you just collected from it.

TT: He can stash it in the wallet and run it back to you, and then you can open the door. You shouldn't be waiting around too long, cause he's real spry.

TT: Which is exactly why you should wait here. You'll just slow him down.

GG: Alright, I think I can do that.

GG: What should I do in the meantime?

TT: Let me think about that.

TT: Robo-calculating...

GG: Oh stop it!

TT: K.

GG: None of our friends will answer me. What could they be up to?

GG: You must at least know what Dirk is doing.

TT: He's slicing up some drones.

GG: Some what?

TT: Big red robots. He'll be busy for a while.

TT: Roxy I'm not sure about, but there is a pretty high probability as governed by the immutable laws of mathematics that she is preoccupied similarly.

GG: She's fighting robots too, you mean?

TT: I don't know. Maybe.

TT: Dealing with them, in some way, perhaps.

TT: If so, it wouldn't be a coincidence.

GG: Why?

TT: I think the Condesce is attempting to force the issue now.

GG: What? What issue!

TT: It's likely that it's a coordinated assault. Sending drones both to here and Roxy's place.

TT: She's probably trying to get everyone else to stop dicking around and join the game already.

GG: Are you sure she's not just trying to kill them?

GG: It wouldn't be her first assassination attempt.

TT: Yeah, but come on. Dirk has been a sitting duck here for years. Roxy too.

TT: She could have wiped them out any time with a swarm much bigger than this one. Or just nuked them.

TT: Her "assassination attempt" on you was pretty weak too.

GG: But it nearly worked!

GG: I would be dead right now if not for the whims of GCat.

TT: Right.

TT: Like I trust the motives of that fucking thing.

GG: So, you're saying she's only pretending to hunt us?

TT: I believe she probably would genuinely like to kill us. She is a psycho after all.

TT: But it's also obvious to me she needs us to begin playing this game, for whatever fucked up purpose she has.

TT: She might even need us to win it too, for all I know.

TT: Her antagonism is all part of the dance.

GG: Then you're saying Dirk and Roxy aren't really in danger from the robots?

TT: Oh, I wouldn't say that. They're still pretty deadly and they shoot missiles and stuff.

GG: Augh! I just want to talk to my friends and see if they're ok.

GG: What about Jake?

TT: No idea what's going on with him right now.

TT: I'm sure when the time is right, the witch will keep pushing him along to join the game as well.

GG: Then I guess I'll just sit here and worry about everyone quietly until Seb gets back.

TT: What about your troll friend?

GG: What?

TT: The alien whose name you don't know.

TT: You could talk to her.

GG: Oh yeah!

GG: I forgot about her.

GG: But I suppose that's because she's always the one to contact me. I never get a response when I message her.

TT: Well, you could give her a try. Maybe things are different now.

TT: I could hack into her system to get her attention, if you think that would help.

GG: You can do that??

TT: Nah, just messin' with you.

TT: Later.

timaeusTestified [TT] ceased pestering gutsyGumshoe [GG]

[rraskolnikov]

so i don’t think i would call this the worst job i’ve ever had, but for a period of time i worked the phone lines scheduling people for covid vaccines, specifically for the state of florida (from this you can infer the general caliber of jobs i’ve had in my life), and one thing that haunts me about this experience aside from the company i did this for being generally a shit show is the fact that there were captchas built into the system. so you can imagine me, 21 year old university student on a saturday evening, my vision blurred because it’s hour 7 of my 10 hour shift, talking to average florida man, who is already belligerent because the deeply broken system has left him 20 messages that day, and i’m trying desperately to stall while i click on every square with a motorcycle in it so i can enter some information and then have to do it all over again a few screens later. like why the fuck did they set it up like that. did they think that someone would try to run a bot to schedule covid vaccines in florida or something

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Stop playing with the damn bots, ya dumbasses.

This aggravates the living fucking hell it of me as a dictate developer. Artificial intelligence is created through machine learning.

Basically the machine keeps trying to do the thing. And if it does the thing right. You say "this one is correct". And it learns from that. If it doesn't, you say "this one is fucked up" and it learns from that too.

Google programmed their self driving cars by using the captcha feature in exactly this way (which is why captcha has been getting harder. There teaching robots increasingly complex things). And I know what you're thinking. "Lol. I'm fucking over the AI because I'm a moron and get the captcha wrong." Because I fuck up the captcha all the time too, but machine learning is programmed to handle human error.

Which brings me back to my initial point. The more you play with your ai art bots. The more the ai art bots will learn. And the more it'll fuck over actual artists.

Stop playing with the bots. It's not a goddamn toy. It's a threat to people's livelihoods.

This isn't even "lol we're teaching the machines to learn and they'll take over". This bullshit is already a dystopian fucking nightmare. Ai has been used to program self driving cars. Write books. Write music. Create art.

It was fucking cute a thousand years ago when people thought technology would remove our need to work. But now that we're realizing that it's stealing jobs. It's not fucking cute anymore.

The "machines do our jobs so we don't have to work" is fun for a communist system where everyone can get the resources they need to survive. But in a capitalist system where we're all required to work. It's a dystopian hell.

-fae

No because theres already a case of an actual artist being accused of doing AI art because their art is "familiar to the AI art style."

Theres already people who have gotten the AI to learn correct hand anatomy (albeit a bit wonky, but it's 5 fingers on two hands now.).

Literally what the fuck. This is the scariest shit. People now are teasing it to "hold objects" and "do complicated hand gestures" . My partner you and I both know in months time they will. This fucking sucks. It feels like theres no hope to stop this shit anymore aside from clients and art customers to FUCKING STOP AND LOOK CLOSER AT THE ART.

Like, please if you are commissioning from an artist, ask for like a psd. Or a .clip file. You cant even ask for a "sketch" because theres already programs able to simulate art progress, sketch to render. What the everloving tit shit.

Edit: I've misspoke and am mistaken- dont give the open files willy nilly, i forgot people are assholes who can rip off actual artists. Timelapses are better, as well as progress shots (preferrably with the program frame). I thinm a good way as well to identify is to look close at the brushstroke (hard, Ik but ai genersted images have a sort of weird sharp quality to them)

[saltminerising]

i don’t get why people are so fucking upset and shit if people bot coli. 1) do you know how hard it is to set up? do you? 2) so you’re gonna excuse all the other problems with fr users, including transphobia, racism, etc — and then get mad at botters? please go outside. i promise you not everyone would immediately start botting coli if they made the captcha actually visible to people.

you know why i know? because *i* bot the coli and have had people ask to explain it, i try, and it’s too complicated for them to set up so they give up.

pls stop getting your panties in a twist about something stupid like coli botting (especially since apparently keeping out botters is more important than yknow… not being fucking ableist) and maybe complain about other blatant issues with the site. thank u.

[d-e-w-p]

Mind the tags

Why do 8 have to keep proving I'm a real person? Not to an ai. Not to some captcha programme. But to people?

Why do 8 have to prove I am worthwhile? Why must my worth be weighed in my intelligence? In my physical attributes? In my entertainment value? Why do I work so fucking hard to be good enough, when 8 know I never will be?

I am shown a goal without being told if it is attainable for me. I am expected to work and work and work towards that goal, in the hopes I will achieve something. Recognition? Praise? Attention?

Is it my own fault? For expecting anything from those that set the standard? Am I being selfish and short sighted? Do I want too much? Should 8 be happy with what 8 have left?

If there isn't a chance. If 8 am working and hurting and breaking myself again and again and again for a chance that doesn't exist. Show me a simple kindness in confirmation. Tell me one way or another if anything I can do will make a difference to you all.

Don't bury me. Don't leave me 5 foot under and toss me a shovel. Give me the absolution of closure. A clean, clear severed tie.

8 am so. So tired. And 8 need to know if what I'm working towards has any chance of coming about. If 8 am a real person to you. if 8 exist.

Before the attempt fucking kills me.

[sadnesslaughs]

“A robot’s trying to hunt down and kill you?” ... “Don’t you know that the first law of robotics-“ .... “H-how did you piss off a robot so bad it stopped seeing you as human?!”

(A response to a writing prompt)

“Come on, type it out. Do it. It’s easy. It clearly says Gaw02az. Don’t tell me you’re struggling.” Alex mocked, sitting his laptop on the robot’s lap. The robot’s fan whirled. It had the knowledge to solve complex mathematical equations and still it was stumped by the basic captcha being presented on screen.

“It makes no sense. The words are nonsense. Why do they not make sense?” It’s voice buzzed. The mix of letters and numbers swirling in its circuits. The robot unable to process the strange security system that the humans had made to counter their kind.

“Oh, so now you know my pain. Do you know what it’s like trying to browse the internet, only to be stopped by this stupid thing? It’s enough to make a person kidnap a state-of-the-art tech robot. You need to know the pain you’ve caused me.” Alex had lost his mind. A man can only do so many captcha puzzles before breaking. The incident that caused Alex to lose his mind involved clicking a bunch of pictured frogs, that being his breaking point.

That night, he busted into the Brightal tech lab, stealing their first intelligent robot, one designed to be humanity’s helper. With this robot in his house, he subjected it to his captcha tests, wanting to let it know the world it had created. While he knew this particular robot wasn’t responsible for his problems, he didn’t care. Allowing this robot to pay for the captcha curse.

“It isn’t made for robots. It’s security, designed for human protection.” The robot spoke, its pale metallic fingertips tapping on the keyboard, trying to solve the puzzle.

“Human protection? What a joke. The only thing it protected were those Great Leapers concert tickets I wanted to buy. The shows sold out now, all because I had to click on five fucking frogs. How was I supposed to know a toad isn’t a frog?”

The robot entered the captcha, only for it to present the robot with an error, saying it had failed, despite entering the correct solution. The robot’s body shook, its internal temperatures nearly at their breaking point. “But… I was right.”

“Yeah, sometimes the captcha says you’re wrong. Hows it feel?”

“M…Maddening.” The robot hissed, clenching its hands tightly, causing the paint to scrap off its metallic palm.

“How about this one?” Alex presented the robot with a row of squares. “All you have to do is select all the cars.” The robot examined the squares, selecting a few, only to pause on one particular square. This square had a slight blur to it, with an inch of a car pushing into this square. The robot’s internal probability calculator started working. Trying to work out the likelihood that this square would be counted.

“How does one calculate this square into the equation? It includes the car, yes. But what portion of a car constitutes the vehicle? Is one percent of a car still a car?”

“WHO KNOWS! Take that gamble, buddy.” Alex rested a hand on the robot’s back, only to pull it off when the heat burned his fingers. “Ow.. You’re burning up. Come on, solve this one and I’ll take you back.”

The robot clicked that square, only to be told it didn’t count. Again, it overheated, shutting down momentarily. When it rebooted, it stared at Alex, blinking. “You are no human. You’re a puzzle. One that needs to be solved. You will fit into the square.” Its programming had jumbled, now seeing Alex as the solution to its problem.

“Huh? Ok, whatever. Guess I’ll have to tell them I found you like this. Follow me to the car.” Alex turned to the door, narrowly dodging the robot’s attempt to grab his neck. The robot picked up a small bin from the corner of the room, carrying the bin as it followed Alex.

Once outside, Alex opened the backdoor. “Alright, get in.” He ordered, before noticing the bin. “What’s the bin for? You want to do some cleaning or something? I appreciate it. It’s not needed, though.”

“You will fit in this box. I will fit you in and solve the puzzle.” It went to grab Alex, only to seize up when it saw the car. “CAR CAR CAR CAR CAR. IS IT IN BOX? SQUARE? WHERE DOES IT START OR END?” The robot broke down, tilting forward.

“No, no. I broke it. Shit, I’m going to be in trouble.” He shut the backdoor and got into the front, starting the car. “You stay here. I’ll say I found you on the street.” By the time the car started, the robot sprung to life, punching a hole through the back window, trying to reach Alex.

“YOU WILL GO IN THE SQUARE. CRUSH AND SOLVE.” The robot’s threat suddenly dawned on Alex. He put his foot down and floored it, swerving onto the street. The robot chased after him, smacking the edge of the bin, showing him where he would end up. Alex ran any red light he got, luckily avoiding any pedestrians he encountered. The whole time, the robot followed, not having eyes for anyone but Alex.

When he made it to the tech lab, he explained the situation to the man behind the front desk. The man not believing the story about the killer robot, finding it farfetched. They had checked every failsafe. The robots weren’t hostile. Still, if he had information about the stolen robot, it was worth calling for a programmer. Lindsey came down, wearing her novelty cartoon shirt, depicting two dwarven men programming in a mine.

“Do you know who stole Hollow? Sorry, they didn’t really tell me what you wanted, just that it involved a robot.” She looked Alex over before smirking. “They were right about you being sweaty. Did you run here?”

“No, I’m being chased by a killer robot. Save me! I don’t have much time. It’s right behind me.”

“It can’t kill you. Don’t you know the first rule of robotics? Have you ever taken a highschool tech class? It’s the first thing anyone mentions.” She said, a hint of smugness in her voice, confident a creation she helped design couldn’t be hostile. Though, with each passing second, she doubted herself. The man looked terrified, and that fear had to have some reasoning. “Unless it stopped seeing you as a human. What could a person even do to make a robot that hateful?”

“I may have…, tormented it with captcha? Not in a bad way. I made it solve a few easy puzzles.” Alex explained, giving a sheepish chuckle. “That’s not bad, is it?”

“That’s bad… that’s very bad. Robots aren’t designed to handle the stress that captcha causes. We can only simulate 35% of the human capacity for stress endurance. We subsidize this by giving them extra knowledge banks and an ability to access information that humans would have to study years for. So, instead of engaging in complex thought, they can pull up an answer, sparing their circuits. It wasn’t meant to leave our labs. We hadn’t worked out how to get it to solve problems without snapping. You should have seen its solution for ending world hunger.” Lindsey sighed, already seeing the pale robot charging towards the tech lab. “I need to get my laptop. Stall it.”

Lindsey rushed upstairs, trying to find her laptop. As she did that, the robot raced in, still holding the bin which now contained 1% of the cars it had passed on the road. Taking that small percentage in the hopes that mixing it with Alex’s crushed body would be the solution it required. “Last square.” The robot said.

“Wait. Your captcha has expired. Find all the plants first before engaging the previous captcha.” Alex ordered. The robot’s head twitched, sparks flying from it. It shook the bin, trying to figure out which to do first. Eventually, it turned to the office plant, throwing it into the bin. By the time it was done, Lindsey had activated the kill switch, turning off the robot.

“Did it work?” She called out, hurrying down the stairs with her laptop in hand.

“Yeah. Phew, thought I was going to die. I guess we all learned a valuable lesson today. I should go home and reflect on this.” Alex went to leave, only to get grabbed by Lindsey.

“You stole a robot. I’m calling the police. You’re going to get locked up for this.”

“How are you going to explain to the cops that you built a robot that can kill someone? Isn’t that going to cause you some issues too?” Alex said, bargaining for his freedom. “If you let me go, I won’t say a word.”

“It’s not our fault. You stole and activated it when it wasn’t ready for public testing. Still, it’s going to be a pain if our robot gets linked to that. Would make us look bad. Ok, how about this? We say that you accidentally activated the robot while cleaning our offices. You then commanded it to follow you, causing it to chase you down the street. That way, you get a slap on the wrist or at worst some community service and I get my reputation kept somewhat intact.”

“Deal.” With that, Alex survived his encounter, even if he had to pay a hefty fine for the public damage the robot’s chase had caused. Not to mention serving a large amount of community service too.

[daxite]

https://aibusiness.com/companies/-i-m-not-a-robot-google-s-anti-robot-recaptcha-trains-their-robots-to-see

Not misinfo, literally do 1 second of research before calling people crazy conspiracists lmao

alright guess i'll clarify here since this is the third (supposedly, unless you're one of the other two who already did this) person who has decided to fixate really hard on those throwaway tags i added for some reason lol

i didn't like the comment and removed it because it was worded in a very fearmongery/exaggerated way and it's not the kind of thing i wanted on my blog nor found necessary, the only reason i added the "to make people aware" comment is that i was basically talking to my followers/mutuals and essentially rambling to myself like how tags have always been used here if i wanted to make an actual 'point' or whatever, i would've actually added to the reblogs directly like i've done before when debunking misinfo that i've seen here, but because this wasn't that big a deal to me and i was aware that there is some truth to it i just threw it in the tags and removed the comment lmfao

and going back to the initial discussion; no, captchas weren't designed to "train AI", they were initially created to stop bots, this also takes 1 second of research to figure out lol are they used to train AI? yes, especially now more than ever, but that wasn't their initial or only, purpose and i frankly couldn't be bothered to get into specifics because, again, tags, and i really did not care that much in the first place i also wasn't expecting some people who i don't even know or who don't even follow me, to get weirdly confrontational over some tags, some even getting weirdly fucking aggressive over it

also by "conspiracy" i was not being serious at all lmao, anyone who follows my blog, who those tags were for aside from myself, understands that, if the person who made that comment is bothered by that then i'm sorry, i really was not being serious, but i'm not sure why anyone else is taking that so seriously or offence to it