Too clever to be human; or, the limitations of Turing tests

[vvvexation]

I was just faced with a CAPTCHA that included the word "finifter." Only not really, because of course they weren't actually f's, they were those old-fashioned stretched-out s's. So I typed "sinister"...but the computer didn't like my answer. :-(

(Of course, I'd suspected it wouldn't. But I do think it's a little unfair to use that sort of thing in CAPTCHAs.)

Comments

I'm actually pretty curious about this

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Wait--why didn't it like your answer? Had a bunch of other morons typed 'finifter', and now that crap transcription is taken as the correct one?

Re: I'm actually pretty curious about this

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

That's what I can only assume happened.