That girl was always falling again and again

[venta]

I've noticed, of late, that I've been getting worse at filling in captchas correctly. I think that they're getting worse, and harder to read - but possibly this is just the equivalent of declaring as you get older than all your friends have started mumbling.

This was today's particularly troublesome specimen:



Is it just me, or is the second word hard to read, and the last letter just a splodge?

Is captcha-reading software getting better, forcing captchas to become ever more illegible?

Or am I, in fact, slowly devolving into a spam bot?

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

The ReCaptcha software uses words from digitized books that have not been correctly recognized by the computer. As more words are correctly identified by using humans, the more obscure and difficult results are left.

Is my theory, anyway.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

This is really true. And the second word is definitely 'glorified' (I have a lot of experience of reading badly scanned books).