failing the human test

[@stephenpowers51]

To be boring, those 'where are the stairs' tests do more than test our eyesight. The way we move the mouse, or our finger over a pad on our laptops is being tracked to see if it's done in a 'human' way, that is,in a way that's a bit wibbly-wobbly and not a robotic straight-line trace from one staircase to the next.

[@thehumbleservant21]

The invisible recaptcha tests for user behaviour but i'm not sure that the standard pattern recognition ones do the same.

[@stephenpowers51]

@@thehumbleservant21 Hah! Got ya! That's EXACTLY what a robot would say.

[@Archronys]

@@thehumbleservant21 Computers can solve most image captchas now, so I wouldn't be surprised if they also capture the mouse behavior.

[@stephenpowers51]

@@thehumbleservant21 Hi… you got I was kidding, right? I’m sure you’re not a robot, and are a thoroughly decent fellow.

[@Alnakar]

​@@Archronys yeah, it started as "since we're having people prove that they're human anyway, they may as well also provide training data to AI models", and now I think it's basically "sure, we know that computers can do this too, but we can at least validate our results by testing against humans". I doubt any part of this still has anything to do with proving that I'm human.