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The crosswalks Captcha provides the most difficult cultural discrepancy for me. Some US crosswalks look like European "forbidden for all traffic" road markings. Pretty much the opposite of a crosswalk. I always have to do a double take on those.
And in India, they are commonly refereed to as "Zebra Crossing". No one refers to them as cross-walks and most have no idea about that term.
Not even OP was confused by this, they are just complaining on the behalf of some theoretical person who might get confused.
The crosswalks Captcha provides the most difficult cultural discrepancy for me. Some US crosswalks look like European "forbidden for all traffic" road markings. Pretty much the opposite of a crosswalk. I always have to do a double take on those.
And in India, they are commonly refereed to as "Zebra Crossing". No one refers to them as cross-walks and most have no idea about that term.
It always amazes me that we as a society insist on using ambiguous words ("crosswalks" or otherwise) when there is an option to use an unambiguous option.
For example, their bizarre date system. Widespread use of state abbreviations and timezone abbreviations that are only known in the USA. "Zip code" on forms for customers in New Zealand or India or France.
In my country (UK) taxis are not yellow either (although yellow is a common colour for taxis throughout the world) but I am still able to guess which pictures are of taxis when the other options are of palm trees and a van. I think that's the point of these captchas. The average human being has no problem passing the test even if they are not 100% familiar with all the details. There is obviously a limit and indeed p…
Around here the van is more likely to be a taxi than any car. So,... no. The cultural bias is nauseating. I've never yet managed to identify a crosswalk. I frequently fail at busses. All this click-click-click on items mysterious is just exhausting and leaves me feeling drained and dehumanised. These days if I see one I generally just bounce. It's less humiliating that way.
Yeah, images are hard and already solved by AI, anyway. At least on specific domains where there is training data.
New captcha idea - the Turing test. Detect if a passage is written by human or AI. If you can't get in, it means we reached AGI.