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

[aliothsan.livejournal.com]

Something like that, but I don't think that changes my comment? Anyway, the two words that show up in a given captcha aren't a mated pair -- they swap them around, I think.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I just meant that I hoped the one with the superscript wasn't the one they were using me to proofread.