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^ This is the way to go. Don't waste any energy on the "unknown" word, just fill out the one that has been smeared out and fill in bogus for the rest. If you w

by Nyubis 12y ago

^ This is the way to go. Don't waste any energy on the "unknown" word, just fill out the one that has been smeared out and fill in bogus for the rest. If you want to post on 4chan and don't have a Pass, you need to solve a captcha for every single post. It becomes easier with practice, I fail maybe 1 in 10 captchas. And the more captchas you solve correctly, the easier the captchas for your IP get.

ademarre 12y ago
If enough people colluded to use the same unknown word, say "foobar", then couldn't they train recaptcha to believe that is the true value of the word? If I understand recaptcha correctly, and assuming they don't detect collusion well, then eventually the known word pool would get poisoned with a surplus of foobars.
- Rylinks 12y ago
  An engineer said they have defenses against this >Checking for offensive words is only one of the filters we have. Even without that filter, it’s essentially impossible to get recaptcha to return a false result. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/#comment-1386 http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-lose...
  - shadowfox 12y ago
    > it’s essentially impossible to get recaptcha to return a false result. Famous last words :P
- sesqu 12y ago
  ReCaptcha does do some collusion detection, and I assume they do it well, since it has not publicly been stated to be a problem area.
- na85 12y ago
  Some 4channers tried that already. You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use.
  - hueving 12y ago
    >You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use. 'Blacks'
    - nyrina 12y ago
      Hint: It starts with "N" and ends in "igger"
      - mreiland 12y ago
        did it have any letters in between?
      - wernercd 12y ago
        Naggers!
  - Ntrails 12y ago
    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: "the internet".
- viraptor 12y ago
  This has happened in google image labeler. Now offline, it was a game where two random people were matched and needed to find new tags for the same image - the scoring was cooperative so points were given when you both chose the same word in the same game. /b/ of course quickly organised the jesusporn metagame... Label the first image as jesus, second as porn, third with jesus, etc. This resulted highest scores for some time.

by Nyubis 12y ago

ademarre 12y ago

If enough people colluded to use the same unknown word, say "foobar", then couldn't they train recaptcha to believe that is the true value of the word? If I understand recaptcha correctly, and assuming they don't detect collusion well, then eventually the known word pool would get poisoned with a surplus of foobars.

Rylinks 12y ago
An engineer said they have defenses against this >Checking for offensive words is only one of the filters we have. Even without that filter, it’s essentially impossible to get recaptcha to return a false result. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/#comment-1386 http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-lose...
- shadowfox 12y ago
  > it’s essentially impossible to get recaptcha to return a false result. Famous last words :P
sesqu 12y ago
ReCaptcha does do some collusion detection, and I assume they do it well, since it has not publicly been stated to be a problem area.
na85 12y ago
Some 4channers tried that already. You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use.
- hueving 12y ago
  >You can guess which 6-letter epithet for black people they tried to use. 'Blacks'
  - nyrina 12y ago
    Hint: It starts with "N" and ends in "igger"
    - mreiland 12y ago
      did it have any letters in between?
    - wernercd 12y ago
      Naggers!
- Ntrails 12y ago
  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: "the internet".
viraptor 12y ago
This has happened in google image labeler. Now offline, it was a game where two random people were matched and needed to find new tags for the same image - the scoring was cooperative so points were given when you both chose the same word in the same game. /b/ of course quickly organised the jesusporn metagame... Label the first image as jesus, second as porn, third with jesus, etc. This resulted highest scores for some time.