And then ask the question, “would this kitty fit into a shoe box? Why, or why not?”. Then sort the answers manually. (Bonus: it’s cuter than captcha.)
This would not scale well, and you’d need a secondary method to handle the potential blind user, but I don’t think that bots would be able to solve it correctly.
Reminds me of how bots tend to be really bad at figuring out whether the word “it” applies to the subject or the object in a sentence like: “The bed does not fit in the tent because it is too big”
It’s fine if the photo is either shopped or a false-perspective illusion. It could be even a drawing. The idea is that this sort of picture imposes a lot of barriers for the bot in question:
must be able to parse language
must be able to recognise objects in a picture, even out-of-proportion ones
must be able to guesstimate the size of those objects, based on nearby ones
must handle RW knowledge, as “X only fits Y if X is smaller than Y”
must handle hypothetical, unrealistic scenarios, as “what if there was a kitty this big?”
Each of those barriers decrease the likelihood of a bot being able to solve the question.
Show a picture like this:
And then ask the question, “would this kitty fit into a shoe box? Why, or why not?”. Then sort the answers manually. (Bonus: it’s cuter than captcha.)
This would not scale well, and you’d need a secondary method to handle the potential blind user, but I don’t think that bots would be able to solve it correctly.
Reminds me of how bots tend to be really bad at figuring out whether the word “it” applies to the subject or the object in a sentence like: “The bed does not fit in the tent because it is too big”
This particular photo is shopped, but i think false-perspective Illusions might actually be a good path…
It’s fine if the photo is either shopped or a false-perspective illusion. It could be even a drawing. The idea is that this sort of picture imposes a lot of barriers for the bot in question:
Each of those barriers decrease the likelihood of a bot being able to solve the question.