# I've had it with these fucking Turing tests. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996 "2009-12-12T16:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/1 "2009-12-12T16:54:45Z")
Go [here](http://www.battlefront.com/community/search.php?do=process) and look at the abstract expressionist art they call a Turing test. I have tried to search for something 10 times and got it wrong every time. I’m slightly red/green colorblind so perhaps it’s just me but this has gotten outta hand. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/2 "2009-12-12T17:08:25Z")
I agree. I routinely fail those things two or three or four times before getting lucky. If I have to solve one just to search or post, that site is dead to me. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/3 "2009-12-12T17:19:49Z")
It goes to a search page at [battlefront.com](http://battlefront.com) for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/4 "2009-12-12T17:24:12Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > It goes to a search page at [battlefront.com](http://battlefront.com) for me. Check out the CAPTCHA on the right-hand side of the page. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/5 "2009-12-12T17:24:27Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > It goes to a search page at [battlefront.com](http://battlefront.com) for me. See the image for verification on the right hand side. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/6 "2009-12-12T17:26:05Z")
Just hit refresh a few times until you get an image that’s not that hard to parse. After only two refreshes, I got [this](http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/2743/74842912.jpg). > [@mswas](#): > > It goes to a search page at [battlefront.com](http://battlefront.com) for me. Right. The OP is having problems with the image verification for using the search feature. BTW, OP, you usually don’t have to worry about using that feature if you become a member of a message board and are signed in. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/7 "2009-12-12T17:35:15Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Check out the CAPTCHA on the right-hand side of the page. Ahh, I thought that maybe that’s what he meant but wasn’t sure. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/8 "2009-12-12T17:41:26Z")
I fully support this rant. I’m not colour blind at all, but I have a lot of trouble with these, too - surely there are Captchas that will stump a computer that a person with normal vision\* will easily be able to see, not a person with normal vision able to figure out, maybe, if they squint just right, and guess lucky with their fingers crossed. \*Well, let’s just call it normal vision for argument’s sake. Corrected to normal, how about that? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/9 "2009-12-12T18:57:33Z")
Some of those on that site are especially bad and I am not color-blind in the least. Half of them at least were completely unreadable and a another quarter were marginal. It hit refresh until I could find ones that I could read. At least it lets you do that. Some sites force you to attempt a basically unreadable one before you get another. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/10 "2009-12-12T19:39:44Z")
I didn’t see the captcha because I am long-standing member at that board, but yeah. Slightly better are those which ask a trivia question or simple math question. Aren’t there armies of foreign people whose only job is to spend all day decoding these things for spammers? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/11 "2009-12-12T21:35:27Z")
Shouldn’t that be, “I have HAD IT with these mother-fucking Turing tests on this mother-fucking internet?” ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/12 "2009-12-12T22:38:13Z")
For a second, I thought this thread was penned by a proto-AI complaining it couldn’t pass for human. That would have been so cool. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/13 "2009-12-12T22:44:03Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > For a second, I thought this thread was penned by a proto-AI complaining it couldn’t pass for human. > > That would have been so cool. I thought it was baby Skynet complaining. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/14 "2009-12-12T22:45:47Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > For a second, I thought this thread was penned by a proto-AI complaining it couldn’t pass for human. How do you know it’s not? ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/15 "2009-12-12T23:19:06Z")
At least [this one](http://bbspam.com/2007/07/16/the-best-captcha-ever/) is legible. Oh, and I like the obfuscated background…'cause they wouldn’t want any bots reading and deciphering it, would they? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/16 "2009-12-12T23:42:38Z")
There is no cake. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/17 "2009-12-13T01:57:01Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > How do you know it’s not? Hang on, I’ll check. I hear there’s a test for this out there somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/18 "2009-12-13T02:03:12Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > There is no cake. So my choice is “or death”? ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/19 "2009-12-13T02:23:51Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > So my choice is “or death”? 😭 weighted companion cube 😭 I miss you so much 😭 :snuffle: but there was no other wayyy, forgive me :waaiiilll: ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996/20 "2009-12-13T02:34:11Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > Go [here](http://www.battlefront.com/community/search.php?do=process) and look at the abstract expressionist art they call a Turing test. I have tried to search for something 10 times and got it wrong every time. I’m slightly red/green colorblind so perhaps it’s just me but this has gotten outta hand. Fail. No _real_ human would combine the phrase “abstract expressionist art” with “gotten outta hand” in the same post. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-had-it-with-these-fucking-turing-tests/520996.md?page=2)