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I didn't downvote you but I read your comment a half a dozen times and couldn't make sense of it...
I was explaining why, in my opinion, the facial captcha project isn't very functional, at least as it is described on the artist's website. It was an explanation of the simplest method a bot could use to game that system.
We do tend to "see" patterns that associate to built-in or learned abstractions, such as faces (or elephants, etc.) in clouds. This is especially the case when social reinforcement is a factor, like when someone points skyward and asks, "don't you see a face in that cloud?" and soon everyone standing nearby agrees it sure looks like a face. That computers are "fooled" may simply reflect their human programming, thoug…
> It's amusing the way FACE-DETECTION in my spiffy digital camera (an Olympus EM1) will find faces in all kinds of inanimate objects. They set out to specifically look for faces. So that's what they'll find.
It shows the limits of the technology, but as in the article, technological quirks can sometimes be exploited creatively.