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[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

[ebee.livejournal.com]

Im normally good at those but no clue.

[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.

[uitlander]

I have always found them difficult to read correctly, to the extent that I lost all access to one group account completely. Oddly I find the first word on this indecipherable without your transcription, but can instantly recognise the second. Perception is an odd thing.

[lnr]

I'd go for "glorified" for the second word, even though that last letter is a splodge. I find that these ones in particular are often very hard to read, and irritatingly don't always seem to use real words, which makes it much harder. I've no idea at all if your "saltord" is correct, that l could be an i or even and r for all I can tell.

I think the reCAPTCHA ones are particularly bad for this, as they're apparently deliberately using words that already failed OCR - harder for bots yes, but there doesn't seem to have been any thought into *why* they failed, and the fact that some of them are just impossible out of context.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that too.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I get saltord (...which is not a word...) and glorified. Though as three of the so-called letters only make sense in context, if it's meant to be a non-word then anyone trying to identify it is sunk.

The third letter could be any of o, e, a or even u, the eighth letter ditto, and of the final smudge the less said the better...)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

The second looks like 'glorified' to me, but the first - is that even a word? 'saltord'? Should it be 'Salford'?

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Oh I am *terrible* at reading captchas, which gives me that 'little old biddy' feeling. I try the listen option if one is available or just have to try repeatedly.

Je ne suis pas un bot!

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

I often get CAPTCHAs wrong (and this isn't a case of them giving me a word from a book, as it tells me I got it wrong).

At least you didn't get one of these!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I'd have gone for "saltord" and "glorified". But both of my parents are doctors, and I'm the designated "scrappy handwriting decipherer" in the office ...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have no trouble at all seeing that as glorified, but saltord would stump me for a while.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

http://myapokalips.com/show/23%23comic

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

"saltard" and "glorified" here. I despise non-english Captchas, but they are at least better than eg TicketMiser who seem to use random characters, and ou need to get them all right, even case.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

I had this problem just now so I tried the audio version for blind users. Just as incomprehensible. I believe that Skynet is awakening, we may not have long to get to the bunker.