Last Spring the Deutsche Bahn inflicted on me some of worst CAPTCHAs I’ve ever seen: “Please click on the pictures of the cookies that are in the shape of a dog.”
This horror show is their example image for what a cookie in the shape of a dog looks like:
Is this unsettling yet?
Dear millionaires who are making AI models and data sets: please stop filling the world with terrible garbage. Dear CAPTCHA, I resent being your AI training guinea pig. And Dear Deutsche Bahn, please stop making me solve these every time I try to log in with a new IP address or whatever, because this happens all the time when I’m on your trains, which is a lot.
“Please click on the pictures of cats with long hair.”
I will not bear mute witness to these online atrocities, unlike these cat cookies.
Terrible.
Daniel Liu, History of Science 