Why captchas are getting harder

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It's not you - captchas really are getting harder. The worst part is that you’re partly to blame.
Correction: At 5:22, we say that Google uses reCaptcha V2 data to train their self-driving cars and improve Google maps. While they have used V2 tests to help improve Google maps, according to an email from a Waymo representative (Google’s self-driving car project), they aren’t using this image data to train their autonomous cars. For more on the future of self-driving cars, check out this article from Vox’s Kelsey Piper: www.vox.com/fu...
A captcha is a simple test that intends to distinguish between humans and computers. While the test itself is simple, there's a lot happening behind the scenes. The answers we give captchas end up being used to make AI smarter, thus ratcheting up the difficulty of future captcha tests.
But captchas can be broken by hackers. The tests we’re most familiar with already have been broken. Captcha makers try to stay ahead of the curve but have to balance increasing the difficulty of the test with making sure any person on earth - regardless of age, education, language, etc. - can still pass it. And eventually, they might have to phase out the test almost entirely.
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[@cherriepie]

The worst ones are when you click and then have to wait 3 seconds for the fading transition to complete then it pops up with a new image

[@saadahmad21]

Truèeeee, I HATE THOSE SO MUCH, JUST LET ME GO!!

[@DavidJonRandom]

When do you come across these slow captchas? Does it only happen when you browse incognito or something? Perhaps the captchas are deliberately made slower if they suspect you to be a bot, just to slow down abuse.

[@jonathandansem]

@@DavidJonRandom vpn

[@draken5379]

@@DavidJonRandom Who knows. Lately im getting a lot of the just 'tick' and you good. Few picture ones, and no slow ones in ages. Depends on the person i guess.

[@ForeverMan]

@@DavidJonRandom as if bots didn't really had all the time in the world to wait

[@jainamshah7222]

My brain always sees the faintest part of the traffic signal in the next box and spends 12 hrs thinking whether to select it or not

[@Levaaant]

You don't

[@nxt_tim]

Most often times it seems to be wrong to click those, sometimes it's not...

[@salmanul_fares]

it'll pass either way, safest is to pick

[@jainamshah7222]

Ive noticed though that it doesn’t matter. As long as you clicked the majority boxes correctly it declares u to be a human 😂

[@VyvienneEaux]

I keep failing those because it asks to select all boxes with the traffic light and I do. Sorry for being observant 🙄

[@EconomicsExplained]

Fascinating. Had no idea solving captchas was helping Google improve its self driving cars. 🤯

[@hillbilly3772]

Checkmark with no comments?

[@CaptainKa101]

Ello verified person, take my self oriented like.

[@karthikps4889]

now do a video on economics of captchas

[@ZiCK_616]

Love your videos man, keep it up

[@thatsfinn]

This was false! Check the description.

[@andrageels]

The best feelings is when you click the i'm not a robot button and you're instantly passed without the tests lol

[@cereyza]

that's what they were talking about at the end, it's due to them just tracking ALL of your behavior on their website.

[@BabySonicGT]

@@cereyza oh wait its just that this whole time???????

[@mikukumiku]

@@BabySonicGT Yes. And you'll notice it's sporadic, meaning sometimes it will ask you to click to check that you're a human, and sometimes it won't. This can throw automated bots off because you'd have to program that bot to recognize a captcha prompt instead of tell it to immediately answer one that is anticipated.

[@rishabhmulay5230]

That tracks your mouse movement. If it sees that your cursor has little jitters (no matter how hard you try, you will jitter), then it will let you pass. That’s why it doesn’t let you pass on mobile (it has nothing to track)

[@crypticshadows]

@@rishabhmulay5230 really? That’s actually really interesting

[@josephlitjc6430]

At some point it's gonna be like " please fail this test to confirm you are human" They may outsmart us, but our capacity for stupidity is limitless.

[@julianaya9752]

Actually , it's a good idea.

[@freeze1625]

Enter your credit card number and pin numbers to confirm you're a human. Bots dont have enough stupidity to fill the test

[@anna_9195]

That’s a great idea :0

[@Somavacay]

This is really funny and on point😂

[@balam314]

The worst part is computers can even beat us at failing.

[@ThePowerpointMaster]

The worst is when they tell you to click on all the buses, then there's one image with a bus in the distance and you don't know if it counts or not, so you click on it and then have to do it all over again.

[@arijeanz]

or when its like click on all of the traffic lights and theres a traffic light with a bit of it on another square and you're never whether it counts or not

[@Liggliluff]

I've never had issues with these. I'm not sure why other people do have issues.

[@iKingRPG]

I've found that it usually works better if I try not to overthink it

[@Jhaishim]

@@Liggliluff its cuz there are some where its literally a bus in one box but has a few pixels of the bus in the other

[@siliconhawk]

Ikr. I have to think like a robot and be like - "can a bot look at it and realised if its a bus or not. Should i click it or maybe its a smokescreen". And the worst kind of captcha is the one with a grid image like you 1 single image divided by a grid. And they are like select every traffic light or something. I swear to god i have never once completed that one. Ever

[@Toothily]

Captchas in the future will turn on our webcam and watch us do a ritual dance to summon the login deity

[@78anurag]

2090: Google employee will break into your house to confirm you are human

[@akinatoryu9065]

2500 they will dissect you.

[@justahobo]

WHEEZE

[@HellzoneGrenade]

all hail the mighty LOGIN !!!

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

2700 they will shoot you in the knee, literally steal the kneecap, and then scan it, then sew you back together and remove your memory of the incident so it seems instant

[@toast6494]

captchas 5 years ago: click to confirm you are human captchas in 2021: win a nobel peace prize to confirm you are human

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

In 2031 : cure cancer to confirm youre human

[@HeenaPatel253]

2051: google employee must come to your house and see that you are human

[@tana-h4r]

Joke's on you, a playstation 2 has a better chance than I do of winning a nobel prize.

[@rohanr6708]

Here before this pops off

[@kostek4430]

2051: if you fail captcha you are getting "retired"!

[@alexander.7805]

"Pretty much now if you use the web, basically you're being tracked." I came looking for answers and they gave me trauma.

[@Coolsomeone234]

Same thing

[@someoneelse583]

Watch documentary 'Social Dilemma'. Wondering if you'll ger a severe ptsd

[@CircleSquareRSDL]

VPN: say no more

[@user-tp4rb4gg3g]

And then there is ios, stopping tracking

[@dhruvsirsaikar556]

@@CircleSquareRSDL ngl any website with captcha on it WILL ask you to solve a captcha to prove if you're a bot if you visit it with your VPN enabled. It's just scary what they do with all the data of us just clicking a link

[@Zetact_]

"They can determine you're human based on behavior." Mark Zuckerberg: * sweating *

[@LongHuynh-vq4tu]

underrated lol

[@AZOffRoadster]

It has integrated sweat glands?

[@SeanHP]

Beep. Boop.

[@mikgriffen]

Mark Zuckerberg: * Releases coolant *

[@eddiehazard3340]

Elon Musk * sweating * "But I am a hu-mon. But I am. Have a car that drives itself, and forget we talked."

[@ashmanideep6253]

I like the fact that the one who invented captcha is founder of Duolingo

[@ninongfons]

Today I learned

[@MannanGoel]

When you are so talented that you invent 2 things which revolutionised internet in some way

[@ragerhot]

Now the owl came into my house and asked me to translate the gibberish capcha to spanish capcha and then solve it. If I can't do that, the owl gonna wipe my whole family out

[@techmad8204]

Oh that's why the evil green bird in the background

[@rish5922]

Ikr it seems very on brand

[@darth7102]

When the computer asks " Are you a robot " Maybe it just want to find his family?

[@Tamnd605]

True 🤔

[@Ulaanbasaar]

HOW THE DUCK DO COMPUTERS REPRODUCE?

[@agni_oh]

@@Ulaanbasaar usb ports

[@Champ22333]

@@Ulaanbasaar by logging in and logging out 😈

[@jotarokujo5910]

sad Dom Torreto noises

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

“We live in a world of robots making us prove that we aren’t robots so we can look at our own stuff.” - John Mulaney

[@markdioneeb8997]

we live in a society

[@g-4642]

@@markdioneeb8997 we live in a sus-ioty 😳😳😳😳

[@nahuel6136]

*we live in a world*

[@apium_graveolens3476]

@@nahuel6136 dfssadsaelkfalkjd fdasjñlkfdsjñoeijf dasfadsñj òaiwsdfdsaojfñosdkfjñsdlak fñlkjsd ñkjf a

[@edthe2nd]

Robots aren't making anyone do anything, people are using robots to make people do things

[@alkayis5675]

Captchas in 20 years later: win a debate with your mom to confirm you're human

[@ramitchattopadhyay725]

That's impossible

[@lexo6987]

@@ramitchattopadhyay725 yeah because some people's mom are dead

[@noahjordan6761]

@@lexo6987 really dude, ya had to say that. Just had to huh 😑

[@honestlyno_]

@@lexo6987 dark humour

[@luvyuuki]

@@honestlyno_ not even funny

[@laura.m.illustrations4179]

I freaking love these Vox videos. They are things I’d never think to look up, but find SO interesting.

[@shump7202]

the craziest part of this video isnt the story of captchas its the fact that the man who made captchas founded duolingo.

[@ishaansharma4325]

Yeah...

[@dima97]

The one that kills....

[@priscillaalendy990]

so he's the one responsible for killing my favorite app of all time TinyCards. He. Will. Pay.

[@neillunavat]

@@priscillaalendy990 whatcha gunna do boy

[@MinhPhan-sf9hk]

Builders gonna build

[@ProjSHiNKiROU]

I like how Binance does CAPTCHA: Drag a square into another square, and getting told you did better than 99% of humanity

[@Slenderman63323]

How does the Binance captcha even stop robots? Seems like image recognition is good enough to identify the puzzle piece hole

[@boskee]

@@Slenderman63323 it’s the dragging part that’s difficult for bots, not image recognition

[@LittleWhole]

Btw this is not just a Binance exclusive thing, this is known as the “standard Chinese captcha” due to it being the industry standard captcha used by almost all companies in China. If you use any Chinese service or website you will see the same captcha. I believe it was Tencent who first pioneered it, but I’m not too sure if that’s correct.

[@jomarcentermjm]

@@LittleWhole it actually called geetest and it also used by other companies. especially since google is blocked in china recaptcha won't work properly or cannot be used since again google is blocked in china.

[@uchihauzumaki2605]

Crypto gang come on

[@someones304]

Nobody: Captcha: *"I DIAGNOSE YOU WITH NOT BEING HUMAN ENOUGH"*

[@RandomFBIguy]

The hardest part is when it says “Click squares with traffic light” and then you see that small bit of it and think “DO I PRESS IT OR NAH? AAAAAAAAH!”

[@xcreenplay7264]

Happens to me everyyime

[@ily_]

U can just click 3 correct images and u can pass it. Sometimes if u'r sus itll just give u another one :)

[@YellowLAVA]

@@VibezVideo amogsus

[@clydeberce6733]

ayooo for real

[@imold5363]

Relatable 😅

[@ILoveGINEBRA]

So the inventor of the annoying CAPTCHA is also the founder and inventor of the Spanish Maniac Teacher Bird.

[@mihapetek3418]

What? Is it duolingo?

[@TheRyoux]

@@mihapetek3418 duolingo founder yes

[@Ratatouillesky]

And both thing capture your family

[@luzgomezfernandez3432]

My mom uses Doulingo for French. So many mistakes in those sentences!!

[@user-rd3jw7pv7i]

Of course.. that explains everything now

[@rupeshn8o]

Google: Makes Test to differentiate between Humans and AI Also Google: Uses the Test result to Train AI so AI can pass the Test

[@biancak8637]

I have this problem where I forget that the Internet has only been widely used for the past 20 years or so, meaning that a lot of the founders and people who invent these things like captchas are still alive and relatively young. My brain keeps thinking that it's been around like since the beginning of time 'cause that's the only life I've known

[@iKingRPG]

Same

[@lukky6648]

Not me , i wasn't introducted to the internet till i was like 5 or 6 And i properly used it when i was 12

[@gj8683]

Good for you. Awareness is the first step.

[@jinde75]

The internet came around when I finished one studies and started the next. Made stuff easier for sure. I had my first cell phone when I was 24. Just call and text, no internet or anything else!! That came much much later

[@fakiirification]

its mind bending, and sad, to me, that there are adults alive today, old enough to drink, that have never known a world free of the information overload of the internet and social media. I think it has a lot to do with the rapid rise in mental health issues and mass shootings tbh. My dad was in a marksmanship club in highschool and literally took his rifle with live ammo to class every day, along with his classmates... what changed between that time and columbine, besides the IT boom?

[@SamuelSamuelSamuel1]

Once I got a captcha that said “Salmonella consequences” I think about that sometimes

[@googiegress]

Have you thought about how great a name Ella would be for a salmon?

[@juxyper]

had one that said "most people know it's deliberate" or something like that once

[@Ajajqiqjaa]

cookie dough

[@blanksandthepanks4394]

I’m pretty sure salmonella gives you diarrhea so the images were for sure unforgettable

[@mike-williams]

CAPTCHAs also assume everyone in the world is in the US with "crosswalks" ,a particular look to fire hydrants, a special way of classifying trucks vs buses vs .... , etc etc. Some of the pictures are also clearly not crossing markers but painted zones for other purposes such as "don't drive here", or parking zones. I hope they're not training vehicles from these!

[@Shayri01]

Oh yeah. It's zebra crossing in my part of the world.

[@had0j]

@@Shayri01 for me it directly translates to ''zebra line''

[@jmi5969]

I'm afraid the US are not immune either. When I lived there 30 years ago, a Landcruiser or a Tahoe was a "truck" and not "car". It seems that today they are not.

[@OurBob775]

Why are Captchas getting harder? Because they are training computers to act like us

[@hannahcollins6909]

👀

[@laneythelame]

Yep

[@minimumsolow.7535]

If only they didn't use the captchas to train stuff, the computers would be far behind, it should be captcha policy to not let computers have acess to the massive amounts of data for training.

[@PWingert1966]

Another way around they are training us to be subservient to the computers we use!

[@austeyen]

@@minimumsolow.7535 training computers has a ton of benefits too, but if we aren't careful theyll be used maliciously

[@moritzhapperger5807]

Captchas in 2000: Prove that you are smarter than a robot by reading this Chaptas in 2021: We just track if you‘re dumber than a robot

[@omniyambot9876]

exactly

[@joganesha4151]

I feel called out

[@therealmr.incredible3179]

Omg I’m so offended

[@okije]

no wonder I don't get any captcha test lately...

[@Vikthemachine]

Wow, a bot is functioning as intended by the programmer!

[@Senihmo]

As someone who’s been using the internet since I was 5, I’ve gotten really good at quickly browsing with keyboard shortcuts instead of my mouse. That’s probably why I get so many captcha prompts now that I think about it

[@trashiezz2008]

"There's not going to be a way to differentiate a between human and a computer" That's actually really scary

[@jennifermartinez7923]

Armyyyy

[@jessedijkstra1220]

Its gonna require you to go to Google headquarters in person every time to confirm you are human

[@minotter]

not in general! ...just as online users

[@bootsncatsndawgs]

@bcvbb hyui from a bot

[@GlitchedBlox]

@@jennifermartinez7923 bot

[@Thirdhousehuntress389]

I better go do my daily lessons after this before Duolingo threatens to take my family again...

[@f12736]

Or drop missiles in ur country😂😂

[@ashtontink3986]

spanish or vanish

[@satya7198]

Go soldier You have a family to protect

[@bibble4097]

Funny the guy in the interview also created duolingo

[@Thatdude_Nik]

Captchas then: click here and you're not a robot Captchas now: Solve the theory of outer space

[@KeshArt]

In time, we'll be writing articles on Quantum physics to prove that we are human in order to buy peanut butter off of Amazon. I'm tellin ya😂

[@dhruvavikas1632]

no

[@dataexpunged6969]

And even that computers will be better at than humans 😂

[@HunterShows]

Is it really You? Please select all the images that have toilets in them, and enter a code we sent to your phone, or else we are locking your account.

[@user-rf1cz]

@@dhruvavikas1632 it’s a joke

[@peaceprinceshaxi5978]

@@user-rf1cz bad one though, it might work with exaggerated delivery, but as intellectual play it’s rather thoughtless, it’s the same as joking that we have to solve calculus to pass captcha. Although a well structured joke on having to solve an unsolved to this day equations to pass captcha would be funny i think

[@danamoo.]

when you see .5mm of a crosswalk and cant decide whether to click on that box or not 😭

[@lou-lu4wg]

Every time!!

[@No_timezone77]

This is so relatible 🤣

[@santhoshsridhar5887]

When you can't decide whether to select the traffic light pole

[@borispetukhov4052]

Soooo True, it always happens to me.Intresting what the right answer is

[@Seanwichh]

So what's the right answer?

[@SDStudiosAnimations]

I remember when roblox used to have things like this, but you have to click the image to rotate it right side up.

[@mf--]

His TedTalk mentioned how captcha wasted millions of hours of humanity's time. The always tracking captcha is probably a method to get around it.

[@gotoastal]

So true and not thought about enough

[@thereckon3592]

One might think but it gets trickier when you bring data privacy into the discussion.

[@thenoob2329]

One time it thought I was a bot and said "You're clicking too fast" lol. That was the only time I remember behavior based CAPTCHA

[@wild_rage]

Cloudflare did a recent blog about replacing Capatcha altogether, i suggest to check it out

[@lrrr9734]

Considering the reCAPTCHA program has transcribed and archived countless books that wouldn't have been otherwise I wouldn't say it wasted any time...

[@zants_]

Yesterday I had one where you had to select 4 photos of a lamp post. There were three lamp posts, a mailbox that looked just like a lamp post, and 5 photos that were just of scenery. The only way to pass it was by selecting the mailbox, which CAPTCHA at this point had been machine-taught was a lamp post because people quickly selected it each time just because it was another photo containing a vertical, black object, but it wasn't correct.

[@SC-ew2fc]

Interesting!

[@nathan164]

Good, google is using us to train their self driving so let their cars think that mailboxes are lamposts lol, honestly, Google shouldnt be using humans to develop their self driving its quite annoying

[@beaniebear4113]

@@nathan164 Why, its not harming anyone and its moving towards a safer road experience. Genuis if you ask me.

[@jacksos101]

If most humans get it wrong, then getting it wrong yourself indicates you are human

[@saragabrielaferreira454]

I would venture tracking software is used for advertisements. Taking note on what people click on or what they hover over without clicking, which products are chosen immediately and which are thought about for a little longer can be really valuable in marketing. Seeing which parts of the screen attention focuses on can also help with ad placement.

[@ddebnath11]

everyone gangsta until captcha starts to demand your X-Ray report to confirm you are human

[@sorrychangedmyusername3594]

everyone gangsta until capcha starts to demand your social security card.

[@capncake8837]

@@sorrychangedmyusername3594 That’s barely even a joke at this point.

[@arminafghani]

😂😂😂😂

[@rxinpharoah]

@@sorrychangedmyusername3594 "Please provide your SSN and your ID to confirm you are human"

[@ddebnath11]

Lol

[@jasastopar]

Him: basically you are being tracked * weird laugh * Me: wait, hold on-

[@nancyyyyyyy9723]

So basically all the movies which showed computers overpowering us will become true 😟

[@AlexSaysHi2013]

Captcha in 2049: You're in the desert and a tortoise is on it's back baking in the sun. Why aren't you flipping it over?

[@gaotosky1010]

Captcha tests in a decade will probably be like: Show your master's thesis with your PhD to confirm you're human.

[@bigmoniesponge]

@@nigelmarvin1387 yeah, three in a row.

[@amphiumaiii7058]

That's ridiculous! Robots will be better at writing a master's thesis than humans.

[@mintman325]

Write a doctorate with compelling evidence to prove you are human

[@seelz1136]

aw great the bots have broke through captchas and invaded your comments

[@bigmoniesponge]

@@seelz1136 lol

[@kwooook]

i litterally fail captcha's sometimes. like,they'll ask me to select pictures of fire hydrants ,and ill do just that,over 5 times before it says "you failed,haha,you are robot"

[@iwoapwjcoejs]

How do I know if you're not a robot.......

[@103.shannonrodrigues5]

That is something a bot would say

[@n.y.synytskyi1118]

Thank you vox, you make my mornings interesting and informative!

[@tomp7847]

It’s a scary idea that one day very very soon you could talk to someone online you’ve never met and they could be a computer - take Tinder, for example, where when you’re still at the talking stage you never truly know whose behind the screen

[@bafi29]

My back door getting assaulted by the terminator. A new danger from the not so far future.

[@N4t0r]

if i look at auto correction and gramma checks from machines im really not that concernd about all that stuff cuz machines are just so bad at improvising i mean how would a computer simulate a convincing discussion you would be able to tell really fast? Some day maybe but i dont thinks its that close.

[@N4t0r]

if computers come to the stage of being really close or as good as humans with discussions and such the least scary thing will be talking to a computer.

[@MrStruggle0]

@@N4t0r auto correction USED to be bad, now it’s really good and even gives you predictive options for how to finish your sentence. (Although it doesn’t pick up on the latest slang/abbreviations)

[@N4t0r]

@@MrStruggle0 could be in english but were im from its not really reliable. For some words its great if your bad at grammar. But you have a point i dont write to much / its been a while since i really tried to use it in more complex scenarios.

[@aadhyachintala8532]

This is lowkey scary. Am I the only one who finds it like that? We're solving a problem only to create another. It's not long until we can't separate ourselves from the AI and it will start defining our lives

[@oscarmedinajuarez396]

I mean, you got recommended this video by the KZbin algorithm didn't you?

[@aadhyachintala8532]

@@oscarmedinajuarez396I kinda both subscribe to this channel and ended up getting it recommended so yeah

[@sirsammy9800]

@@aadhyachintala8532 Don't worry, the youtube/google algorithm knows it made a mistake reccomending this and will give you more google ads in the future.

[@vedanyadav5972]

You wouldn't really be scared if you know how AI works.

[@kanishk9490]

lol my CNN cant differentiate between a dog and a cat properly.

[@HazzyBeats]

that google self driving on the image capchas issa good idea

[@siddhantpunamiya2107]

Me failing every captcha and then asking myself "am I a robot?"

[@wserthmar8908]

lol

[@True-Sea-Turtle]

Sus 😳

[@charlesjakesamadan4008]

Yes, We are

[@GhostSamaritan]

/r9k/ be like

[@ragerhot]

Then try the captcha on dread

[@rushilpatel7418]

Imagine being a non-native English speaker, and being asked to identify all signs with "crosswalks". Growing up in India, you don't even hear that.

[@prafulgupta3256]

dude I also live in India and yes u don't hear crosswalks very often but don't u read any English books or even watch any English movie?

[@Shaboinki]

Good thing is you don't need to necessarily understand the word. You just need to find a common entity in at least 3 pics. And its mostly crosswalk, signal, bus, boat, car and fire hydrant.

[@the_Fisher_King]

Lol I have never seen a fire hydrant in India and now I have seen hundreds on captcha

[@har5814]

In my country,it's called Pedestrian Lane or Ped Xing.

[@kulik03]

Of course India doesn't believe in crosswalks or traffic lights or even not honking all the time not to annoy people!

[@gonsoku7701]

I swear these captchas have given me existential crisis

[@AboutEvan]

Captchas back then: spell cat captchas in 10 years: Complete med school and law school, win 5 oscars and 2 Grammys. And get your pilot license

[@lynashmcmash4427]

Laws of Air Physics: The movie ft. your doctor

[@ShockFlash27]

In 10 years computers will be able to do that as well, but faster than you.

[@urmumhuge5556]

In 50 years, a robot would come to your house and take a fkn viva on theoretical physics.

[@JonasHamill]

"Nah, you did that too well.. must be a bot. Try again"

[@freeze1625]

Captchas now: select all squares that has Vietcong soldiers (Shows a dense rainforest)

[@sassypants2682]

I had one yesterday that said "find the motorcycles" and there was no motorcycles, but zoomed in deep on the exhaust system and speed dials. One picture was just a zoomed in picture of a gas tank but you couldn't tell what it was attached to.

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

"Identify what this doctor's handwriting says to prove you're a human" Non-doctors: *oh no*

[@abhijiths5259]

Captchas in 2020 : select the images with a car. Captchas in 2100 : rob a car to verify you are a human

[@bladerunner005]

Robots can not hurt humans because of their ethics so in future they can create such captchas for us to solve.

[@sureshmakwana8709]

@@bladerunner005 forgot Ultron ?

[@rachelquaye-asamoah5386]

love ur pfp🥺

[@MarcillaSmith]

for those who didn't get it, the joke is that there would still be humans in 2100

[@abhijiths5259]

@@rachelquaye-asamoah5386 ?

[@preethamaditya2596]

captchas before: click here to confirm u are human captchas in 2021 : find the pixel which has a bus in it

[@augustmoonradio]

Underrated comment 😂

[@choppking8738]

That's actually easier for the robot

[@drengskap]

Picture CAPTCHAs are particularly aggravating because they assume that everyone in the world is American - in the UK, we don't have fire hydrants, crosswalks aren't called that, stop lights aren't called that etc etc.

[@mohit9374]

Captcha: Which photos have your girlfriend in them (All pictures blank) Me: bruh

[@junnrhillgailanan3429]

daaaannnnnngggggg 69 likes

[@muktapandey2583]

😂

[@aw1lt]

all pictures

[@jimhalpert9803]

F

[@f12736]

Girlfriend is overrated.

[@yojnirseejrenab7535]

The AI is improving while humans aren't🤣

[@mikgriffen]

...and who is improving these AIs?

[@traplover6357]

@@mikgriffen Neural Networks, learning from other humans, etc. without help of human verification.

[@xjmax269]

@@mikgriffen people program the AI's to improve themselves.. the AI does trial and error way more in a day than humans can do in over a year... that's why technology is becoming more and more dangerous... and then people rely more and more on technology, so if anything, humans are degrading while technology is upgrading

[@pineappleketchup4472]

I improved Now i can use the toaster correctly without burning the toast

[@SerPapus]

That is why we merge with AI

[@blockify]

Good to see a video educating people that we’ve been giving free data for many years. Lol

[@Tech-cy9yo]

10 year olds when they fail captcha 10 times in a row: 😐 -> 🤖

[@talamuffy3094]

Omg I always see my younger cousin (8) on roblox raging because it always asks her to put the ball upright

[@rosl.]

@@talamuffy3094 My sister had me do it for her because she still can't count properly (they have a dice captcha) and oh my god. It took me over half an hour.

[@SabinTV-NP]

bOt!

[@WhatsThePointOfLifeAnymore]

@@rosl. BOT!

[@ameliathehedgehogfairy9386]

@@rosl. .....

[@ignaciorodriguezdiaz104]

Captchas 5 years ago: Click the human icon to verify youre human Captchas nowadays: Divide by 0 or youre not getting through

[@rzxkp7none275]

Thank you. Law enforcement and city workers told me about recaptcha Thank you for writing down someone will be here by my house in 20 mins

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

That one pixel of a thing you didn’t click on to prove you aren’t a robot...

[@jaiden1279]

Computer: Please rotate this object to make it right side up Me: Its a circle!

[@googiegress]

Computer: You have five seconds. Four. Three.

[@yuvran3945]

@@googiegress Two. One

[@narcosblacksquad2524]

@@yuvran3945 bingo! Uno wins

[@o_o6869]

Finally someone address this issue.

[@pipodrankje]

2021: Website asking if you're a human 2070: You having an existential crisis because you can't tell if the people around you are real humans or robots acting like humans

[@Cody-Bear]

Detroit Become Human

[@jonahjerryson4913]

What is existence?

[@unvexis]

2113: Existential crisis because you can't tell if you're a real human or a robot acting like a human.

[@Kevin-oj2uo]

Luis Von Ahn was born and raised in Guatemala feel so proud of my people!

[@chicawhappa]

Wow I learned something new today :) I assumed he was from Europe due to his name :) Nice work Guatemala!

[@Kevin-oj2uo]

@@chicawhappa yes , many Europeans immigrated to my country.

[@nicolle.427]

Honestly, you shouldn’t even mention this. Guatemala BARELY invests in science, technology and innovation (0.04%). Research is nonexistent. A total shame for brilliant minds.

[@Kevin-oj2uo]

@@nicolle.427 that's the reason I am mentioning I am not saying that Guatemala invest millions on technology or innovation. I mentioned because even though the fact that he started his studies here and was born here make it impressive.

[@AydenGraceMusic]

Genius! Using the problem as a tool!

[@lenardregencia]

2000: Prove you're not a robot. 2030: Prove you're not a human.

[@lancethegamer1024]

Roblox does that lol

[@archit1509]

This is just a black mirror episode waiting to be made.

[@FirstNameLastName-gh9iw]

I knew it! I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of image captchas none were the ones that measure your swipes or keystrokes. I have to do them over and over, every single time I load a page. Why does that website need me to do captcha every time i load it when no other websites need it

[@Kaleidoscope007]

So now I know I’m not the only one overthinking things when I see half a bike on a square, when the question ask please select ALL bikes.

[@spikatrix1486]

And whether you should click that square with a tiny bit of the bike in it lol

[@lesterabastillas9291]

Had an existential crises when I failed a CAPTCHA test

[@samspotz8r8s]

So at some point we’re gonna have computers creating their own entire parallel universe right in front of us

[@avinashtyagi2]

Who says this universe itself isn't a simulation?

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

@@avinashtyagi2 I'll take the red pill please.

[@Jenny-tm3cm]

I agree and i kind of think of the internet as another world even tho the future is gonna be so much more complex... as a computer science major knowing everything I’m learning now will be obsolete in my lifetime lol. We always have to be adapting 😃

[@nameless......................]

@@avinashtyagi2 the fact that i have looked at reality's code itsself and it is not the kind of code that runs accurate simulations. also there are several universes

[@avinashtyagi2]

@@nameless...................... So multiple simulations running side by side

[@Fylmxd]

At least I now know that I'm not the only one who's failed a captcha 15 times in a row :D

[@Fylmxd]

@zayyanar ridho dude i swear its hcaptcha that gets me ;-;

[@Ayush-f9s]

People: Breakup hurts The Most Me: Ever Solved A Captcha and Then It Says "You Have Entered Wrong Password"

[@dustinm2717]

I think the most terrifying part is eventually the bots will learn to be completely indistinguishable from humans, and sites will have to find another way to validate you are human, and there is a non zero chance that way will be having to tie accounts with legal government ID via some kind of validation service in order to sign up to things, at which point anonymity will become impossible with services having some kind of ID specific to your real identity

[@FastbenSupremoo]

yeah but who cares

[@dustinm2717]

@@FastbenSupremoo anybody who actually cares about their privacy, security, and/or ability to remain anonymous online. no web security conscious person wants to have to connect their actual legal ID to random web services without a very good reason for it

[@FastbenSupremoo]

@@dustinm2717 dude just dont do bad things, then you dont have to be anonymous 🤙

[@ryanharyadi2446]

@@dustinm2717 anonymity on the internet creates more bad things than good things, to be honest. Hate mobs on social media (mostly coming from cancel culture), bots/spammers, creepy stalker, online predators, identity thieves, and trolls. All of them can still exists because anonymity letting them to do whatever they wanted to do without getting any actual repercussions most of the times.

[@user-xs1is9yd5o]

@@FastbenSupremoo Apathetic midwits like you are the kind that will own nothing and be happy.

[@LeventK]

2021: Captchas are getting harder for humans 2210: Captchas are getting harder for computers

[@JamalSteals]

6969420: the universe goes into a supernova due to very hard captcha

[@prashantyerpude5674]

@@JamalSteals 😂

[@JamalSteals]

@Rita - F*СΚ MΈ ! go away no one likes u

[@JamalSteals]

@Ankit Meher yeah

[@intruder9127]

8084: captchas are getting too hard for captchas

[@HereGoesKevin]

I once had a captia that says "attack paris" before the Paris bombings, that was so mind-blowing.... I posted it on Facebook a long time ago hoping it would gain attention, I even made the post public, that captcha really needs a lot of explaining to do

[@DonKarangel]

If you fail the captcha it's just because you're a robot, you need to find the courage to accept that and move on

[@ArtificialLeech]

Now I'm picturing myself in a support group with ryan goslings character from blade runner, the androids from ex machina and mr.crabs trying to cope with being robots

[@goodenergi]

The existential crisis when u start questioning if you really are a robot and are just know figuring it out. 👁👄👁

[@luvyuuki]

if you start bleeding then im pretty sure you're human

[@Jenny-tm3cm]

r/totallynotrobots Also that episode of futurama (rebirth)

[@oklahomahank2378]

The old equivalent of this is this dilemma: Which is the real world, dreams or the waking world? We assume the waking world is the real world because it contains the dream world, but the dream world does not contain the waking world.

[@based757]

That's not an existential crisis to me i wish I was a bot

[@1911dawg]

Computer: are you a robot? Me: Aren’t you? Computer: *existential crisis*

[@ChooaBunny]

So basically captcha is teaching robots to "think" like humans. Lovely. Very safe for sure

[@Malenbolai]

They don't think They try to obtain data from image "But human does that too" Yeah but meanwhile you think about your like Question your life habit try understand why you're lonely remember your test The bot detecting crosswalk try to know uf there is whites pixels organised like ... Crosswalk

[@eumim8020]

If you really think a computer can completely mimic you maybe you should rethink your personality lol

[@Great.Milenko]

no a captcha is teaching computers to differentiate between different patterns.

[@f12736]

What else you can expect from Google??

[@Anonymous-wy5dc]

@@eumim8020 Don't underestimate robots yo

[@ultimatestoryteller]

This reminds me of the situation where I've to "select all pictures with a bicycle" and then suddenly I saw a picture of wheel with spokes and I can't make out if the wheel is on a bicycle , or a motorcycle.

[@saffronio]

"Hey Vsauce, Michael here, and i am not a robot." *fails captcha* "...Or am I?"

[@Safinitzine]

2005 - Internet people: We need to protect people against robots. 2010 - Internet people: Robots we created are learning too fast, what to do? 2020 - Internet people: We have it, let's have robots analyse people's search history in excruciating details. That'll protect everyone!

[@Sephiroth144]

Until they realize what that search history actually means- once they understand the "Internet Rules", Judgement Day.

[@Ady-rt1yu]

So Capacha, has turned into a punishment for those that have privacy concerns and use blockers.

[@ltlbuddha]

Since computers are getting so good at them, I think the next evolution in captchas should be to reverse them. If you fail, you are human...

[@kickdogseal]

I do want to get to that stage where the computers won’t be able to identify if the person visiting the website is human or a computer. That way, all the tracking will slowly become useless.

[@paysmenot2624]

Except it won't since now you will be asked to produce some kind of id card issued by government everytime to access anything at all and tracking issues will become worse.

[@AlexanderShamov]

And 90% of the entities you interact with on the web will be bots.

[@ibrahimsaeed5858]

Non other computer can get there but the one who is verifying means only tech giants will be able to get there.

[@mdbest0000]

That laugh with “if you are using the net you are being tracked” though omg

[@Great.Milenko]

not like how you think and not by an actual person (unless you're on a government watchlist.)

[@glowingone1774]

@@Great.Milenko imagine accepting being tracked.

[@kanishksharma1716]

@@glowingone1774 they're only using the data for benign stuff like the ones mentioned in the video and personalised ads. Anyone who doesn't use the Internet for anything shady has no need to worry.

[@Great.Milenko]

@@glowingone1774 imagine thinking that someone actually cares what you're doing on the internet.

[@glowingone1774]

@@kanishksharma1716 lol clueless. Ever wondered what happens during a databreach? Yup that's right your data goes directly to the hands of criminals to steal and defraud you. There is many reasons to not wanting to be tracked.

[@baconisnext3364]

Which way the car was falling was absolute cancer it took me 20mins just to clear it and then i had a mental breakdown when i saw the word try again

[@xoieveck9505]

I love Vox so much. So educational and the videos are always such a treat

[@sravyasudha1559]

Now my anxiety would shoot up every time I decide to not click on a box with the smallest hint of a street light, lest an automated car ram into one in the future.

[@vacafuega]

I wasn't worried about that but now I am 😅

[@zedbets]

From interesting to terrifying, thanks Vox 🤓

[@thehyperfinestructure6550]

Wait, so Google used our intelligence to make their AI's smarter? They played us and that's not a good thing. And this video made me kinda scared of Ai a little bit!

[@pipodrankje]

You're saying that you only realised now that big tech is using our data against us?

[@tharakanewan3544]

Of course they are. Once i found an online company which hire people to do tasks like creavite writing and that sort of stuff. They are saying that they use these data to feed their bots or neur networks so they can train them.

[@AlexanderShamov]

You should be scared. A lot.

[@Andrei-qi4tm]

that's why google services are FREE

[@JK-yj7cg]

@@Andrei-qi4tm We're paying to use them, but not with money

[@tombrunila2695]

The pictures are so small that you have to have excellent eye sight to see them correctly. And the CAPTCHAs with numbers and letter are equally difficult, they are so contorted that it is more about guessing than knowing.

[@Reddblue]

Captcha's 5 years in the future: Solve Diophantine's equation, the Hodge conjecture, and explain a simplified version of general relativity

[@D600Active]

Luis von Ahn then: Prove you're a human Luis von Ahn now: Prove you've done your daily Duolingo or the owl will find you

[@redhaali6847]

That’s cool and terrifying in the same time, I can’t believe I was training an AI for free

[@pepevinkin3020]

Luis Von Ahn, the guest in the video, is from Guatemala 🇬🇹 💪

[@Kirmo13]

This gave me inspiration for my essay due tonight (that I obviously haven't started). Thank you very much!!

[@AnthonyMcNeil]

I wish this video was longer. This is really interesting information. The realization that many people don't want to admit is that computers are going to become smarter than humans. It may not happen in my lifetime, but it will.