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- Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+66Trick question. I had to pick the hottest 3 out of 9 trolls.
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -9/+67That is very subjective...
- Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -7/+60And yet it works.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50Out of the hundreds of purposed alternate kaptcha methodologies, this one's better than most, although obviously it might not work so great for chubby chasers.
This actual implementation is flawed though: hot or not is a public resouce, and these images are direcly linked. You can use the image URL with the exact same API this app uses and look up the hot or not rating for each image. http://dev.hotornot.com/wiki/Rate.getProfile
You could write an app that breaks this particular implementation 100% of the time in under an hour. Simply proxying the URLs would help, although even then you could just MD5 the images, and spider hot or not and build an image hash => rating database.
The basic concept here is ***** brilliant though: have people assess a subjective quality. Pretty hard to get a computer to recognize beauty (although, it could probably recognize fatties, based on a skin-tone ratio -- there are more skin pixels in a fat chick's picture) - yokat, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51"I met my wife on your captcha!!!" -- Steve, from New York
Man, that was funny, please tell that's a joke.
I hope they'll get sued,publishing people's photos without permission and insulting overweight people is not nice. - aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35The results showed no hot people, now what?
- ohmytodd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27i saw my picture on there.. and i clicked it.. and it said i'm not human.. and in essence.. saying i'm ugly. :( so *****.. i'm not human and ugly. ***** THIS!
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25@FlashMan
LMAO, they threw some random guy in the mix for me.........Atleast I hope its a guy :S
http://i1.tinypic.com/207mgr6.jpg - cuttlefish, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29This is just a variation of KittenAuth.
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21The women might not be as subjective, but since this is based on ratings the men are. Women will rate men high if he has pretty eyes, is wearing nice clothes, has nice hair, etc. Men rate the women high if they have big boobs so it's easier to tell.
It called me a bot like ten times when I tried to do the men. I'm a girl. I like men. - Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Really? Hey, I want to set you up with my cousin. She's really nice.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25Subjective? Hardly.
It is scientifically known what makes an attractive person to 99.99% of society. Hell, you can take a classroom full of kindergarten children and they will almost unanimously and without disussing it, decide who an ugly teacher is and who a beautiful teacher is. They will then describe a beautiful teacher and ugly teacher with very different adjectives (one is mean, old, strict, dumb and the other is fun, nice, smart).
Saying that beauty is "subjective" is kind of a cop-out. It's usually said by those of us who WISH it was true. Just because one out of ten thousand people might find you remotely attractive doesn't make an ugly person "attractive" anymore than a guy with a fat chick fetish makes an obese 800lb woman "skinny". - Switch22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Man, this must be selecting from the lowest of the low on the list.
Should be called "Look for the people without fat faces." - fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Some of the 'hot' people were ugly as hell. I couldnt decide.
- BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16It must've detected that you are a robot. That sort of thing always comes as a shock to people. Er, I mean to you robots. Once you come to terms with it, you can start planning to overthrow the human race! Oh, the envy.
- actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Right. They're not insulting overweight people -- you are. Those are just pictures, whatever offense or insult you take away from that page deals with your own opinions and biases.
Putting your photos online is equivalent to "printing" them. And without a copyright or tag of ownership the captcha's author is within their legal rights.
Just laugh at it, sheesh. - ExCornelius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15As a guy, I found it rather difficult to consistently pass as human when using the mens' photos. No, I'm not gay, I was just experimenting. Umm.. I mean... nevermind.
- Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13At least it didn't say, "Submit to Men."
- ElectroBot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I think I saw Lucy Liu Bot.
- neonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Not exactly. Using a shape detection algorithm you could determine which picture was what shape, but if you were to use a complex object like a human where the shape is not detectable to a computer (how would you make an algorithm to determine if someone were hot. I bet it could be done, but not for a while and it would take a lot of work.
- teckjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19you could also say "select the three triangles", and the rest other shapes but this is much more offensive and controversial. I love it
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I spent fifteen minutes on this.
I'm totally a robot. It never once said I wasn't. - davidlow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I suspect some of the people in the photos are not human, especially the hot ones.
- JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Why's it terrible? It's not subjective, but very hard for a computer to deal with.
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12when is digg going to get this???
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yes they are insulting them, if you say they are hot it tells you to die
- Xsecrets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9that you need to quit pretending to be a girl, because everyone knows girls don't exist on the Internet ;)
- ElectroBot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Kill All Humans!!
- wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9They submitted their photo to Hot or Not to see what people thought. As harsh as it may seem, they gave up their 'right' to have people lie about how they look when they submitted.
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Is it just me or was finding the third hot woman sometimes challenging? There were times were finding the third hot woman was more like finding the least ugly of the remaining seven, the right answer usually being the only one left that didn't weigh more than 300 lbs. Also, this site should be renamed "Are you shallow?"
- Civil44, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15might not be nice but they still need to lose weight. beyond ethics this is a great way to figure out if im himan or not ; p
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'm bi, and this thing said I was a bot regardless of what gender I was using.
This is just inaccurate - shreky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There is one way to fool the system. Digg the site to death. Site offline :p
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7AHHH!!! I accidentally clicked "Switch to men" rather than "Submit"
- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7God Damn that's funny, but I like fat chicks.
- Kickersny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If the form can query the HotOrNot API, what is to stop the automated bot from doing the same? I am not too familiar with the HotOrNot API, so if anyone is, please let me know.
- Chandon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6On hot-or-not, hot chicks with bad pictures get bad ratings. So you're looking for the best looking *picture*, not the best looking person.
- fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Being fat makes you autmoatically ugly though (argue all you want its the truth). Being skinny gives you a hell of a lot better chance of being hot.
- krazikamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Is the third robots?
- Xsecrets, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well if I'm taking this correctly the photos are from hotornot.com, so the people actually posted their own pictures.
on a side note does anyone else find that it works for the girls, but just doesn't work so well when you use the guys. - DigiShaman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Hot" women are seen as such because they fit the biological profile of athletic and fertile women. When it comes to finding a mate, it's all about baring children. Of course you do THINK this, but it does run through your mind at the subconscious level. Keep in mind that women too have a profile of what men are "hot".
It's basic human nature that's not easy to replicate with a computer algorithm and thus incorporated into AI. - teesa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm only a human when I'm picking hot women - and I'm a chick!
"The female body is a work of art. The male body is utilitarian. It's for gettin' around. It's like a Jeep." - logic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Spambots don't have opinions.
- kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I, Robot
- DigiShaman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Na, you just have bad taste. On the bright side however, you made fat chicks around the world very very happy. You should have no problem finding a girl friend. LOL
- phoenix3200, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Dangit...I failed...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@seumas: it is subjective... took me 3 tries to get it right... and i literally do not know why... i picked a hot blonde in a bikini, a chick in a skirt, and an asian chick with a hot face.... the other times i did the same thing..picking only "hot" people, but i guess my taste is just off.
- brokn1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I must not be human. It Wouldn't even load the images. It knows me too well...
- Ottergoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Good luck filling out a form with the wife looking over your shoulder... yikes.
/ happily married - nazadus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The inherent problem with tests like this is that they are subjective.
Ok, that line has been said over and over.
But seriously, like IQ tests -- it's subjective.
I remember someone asking me: What color is a banana?
I said yellow, duh.
They said that in some countries they are brown. My mouth dropped in the sudden realization that it's all aobut how we were raised.
Ok, so how do we solve this? hmm, that I do not know. Take something that everyone knows is something?
"Please select a tree from the following:"
"Red Wood" "Keyboard" "Camera" "Stereo system" etc.
Have it cycle through? It's all about keeping images that you know *most* of the popular that are *using computers* have experianced. These things are going to be very difficult for those that are handicapped however.
Perhaps for the blind, something like: Which ones sounds like a bird?
"tweet tweet" "running water" "sounds of car starting" etc.
Difficulty is making enough options such that brute force is way too slow but few enough options such that it doesn't take forver for the listener to listen to. Obviously patterns would be changed on failure and they would have to re-listen to everything again. Ick!
I don't know enough about handicapped computer stuff to make a really valid idea though...
Just my two bits of ideas. -
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