# Just experienced worst CAPTCHA I've ever seen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-experienced-worst-captcha-ive-ever-seen/987265>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-experienced-worst-captcha-ive-ever-seen/987265 "2023-07-19T17:11:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-experienced-worst-captcha-ive-ever-seen/987265/21 "2023-07-21T00:03:18Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Everyone always stresses the what-ifs for these, but how many times have you seen someone complaining about failing one?

Oh listen to me and I will complain. My Kobo e-reader comes with a program for buying books that requires you to get past a captcha (one of those, “Which of the 12 squares contains a motorcycle?” that I almost always fail (my eyes are none too good). I have several times tried to buy a book and then gave up. Fortunately, if I go through one of their ads (which they email me several times a week) I bypass the captcha. I don’t know what they think they’re doing, making it hard to buy a $15 book.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-experienced-worst-captcha-ive-ever-seen/987265/22 "2023-07-21T13:06:50Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> scooters as something that would look like a motorcycle to an AI, or if the captcha had been set up assuming that anything with two wheels and a motor counted as a motorcycle.

But were there Electric Bikes, Mo Peds and regular bikes included?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-experienced-worst-captcha-ive-ever-seen/987265/23 "2023-07-21T13:35:24Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> So the purpose of CAPTCHAs isn’t to weed out robots; it’s to train AI, which can then be ported to a robot to pass CAPTCHAs?

Nothing Google does ever has only one purpose.

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