And fuck every site that does this for wasting my time.

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    Yep. Cloudflare used to have a relatively good captcha, but recently they’ve started asking me to click on the box twice. I click for the first time, the page reloads, then I have to do it again. Honestly, using the web these days is becoming increasingly frustrating.

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    The worst ones I’ve encountered are the ones where you’re supposed to choose pictures with right amount of rocks stacked on them. It’s just impossible, the generated images are too shitty to see the “rocks”, there’s so many pictures even one round takes ages, and on top of it you have to start over again if you make a single mistake - which it will tell you after you’ve done the full round. I once had to do like five rounds of those since I just couldn’t get it right. Now I just close the fucking sites if I see the damn rock piles again, nothing’s worth it, it’s just abuse at this point

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    Ive found with these theres a audio option(headphone icon usually at the bottom) havent come across one without yet. Though i mostly just say fuck it and leave the site.

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    Half of the time it doesn’t even fucking work.

    I too immediately leave the site when this pops up now. I’m just fucking done with it

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    I get it, but most of these sites are trying to protect from malicious AI bots that are scraping the web and DDoS’ing them to death. Just another thing that AI has ruined.

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          That’s one of the fun things about AI model collapse. The AIs will start polluting their own training data (already have, actually) and the more prolific and capable AI gets the stupider their training will become, and it will never get better again, it will just eventually reach a steady state of some stupid AI creating training data just barely non-stupid enough data to be believable to the other stupid AI deciding whether it’s valid training data, which makes them both slightly stupider until it can’t create non-stupid enough training data anymore, at which point the data quality will start to improve marginally due to the increased proportion of human efforts, and then the cycle will repeat, endlessly. There is no way out of an AI polluted training data set except by adding more real human data. Arguably we’ve already hit peak AI because of this, and this is where it’s plateaued and where it will likely stay once the bubble pops, with only slight incremental progress from then onwards. It’s probably not going to be taking over the world anytime soon. It’s a reflection of our own collective creativity and effort. It’s a confusing, byzantine, hall of mirrors reflection, sometimes funny-shaped reflection, sometimes a scary reflection, but it’s always ultimately a reflection. It’s not intelligence. It’s just ourselves. There’s nobody on the other side of the mirror but ourselves.

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      Most frustrating one I came across recently was between the shopping cart and the payment screens. Are you fucking kidding me? I want to give you my money. I’m about to pay you. That’s why you exist. And you put three fucking captchas between me and the “buy” button? Fuck you.

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      I mean, be that as it may, they’re doing it by making their site a bad user experience. I didn’t come to whichever site to play stupid tile games (unless it’s stupid.tilegames.com) so it’s just immediately irritating.