supriyo-biswas 21 hours ago

I understand that the showcased project is meant as a "joke", but a few days ago I briefly saw a Recaptcha with a hand icon amongst its three other options. Curious, I clicked on the hand and it asked me for consent to record my gesture, with an assurance that the video would not be stored.

I've never been able to see the hand icon ever since and no one else seems to have documented its appearance. However, after some searching, I was able to find [1] (archived at [2]) which should serve as sufficient proof of this existing and not something that my mind hallucinated out of those "drink a verification can" memes.

(For people trying to visit [1], you should copy the square brackets at the end of the link, which HN leaves out when adding the anchor tag.)

[1] https://google.com/recaptcha/challenge/hand-gestures?d=[]

[2] https://archive.is/nYJjh

  • rapnie 21 hours ago

    Indeed, joke. No captcha will captcha me when it wants to film me with cold AI eyes. Or any eyes for that matter.

    • immibis 20 hours ago

      You can say that until something important to you, like your bank account, insists on doing this or won't let you in.

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WD-42 a day ago

Now make it match push-ups so we can have true proof-of-work captchas.

ycwatcher 20 hours ago

Is this a quote from the song "Human" by The Killers? There was a song that went, 'Are we human? Or are we dancer?'

  • stavros 13 hours ago

    I thought that was pretty clearly where the quote was from, yep. Though I thought the song was Coldplay.

coolandsmartrr a day ago

The idea is funny, but doesn't work too well without a wider-angle webcam. (Arms get cut off from camera view)

chrisco255 a day ago

This was great, but the crossed-arms example did not work.

dalemhurley a day ago

Funny idea until someone takes it seriously and all of a sudden we have to strike a pose on Zoom

  • viraptor 21 hours ago

    It's a joke. The image provided is a perfect base for pose ControlNet https://www.nextdiffusion.ai/tutorials/how-to-use-open-pose-...

    It's likely easier to generate a matching photo these days than process some of the visual captchas. So it would be pointless to implement.

    • thenthenthen 20 hours ago

      Not sure, but here in China many apps require you to perform a routine with your face, open mouth, blink etc.

    • michaelt 21 hours ago

      That's why my website's dance captcha insists you do jazz hands and have a visible clock.

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xg15 12 hours ago

"Drink Verification Can to continue."

cchance 11 hours ago

Not gonna lie i love it lol i died laughing