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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's based on whatever the majority of humans using captcha say. They ask multiple question on the captcha. Some are testing you on. Some they don't know and give to multiple people to figure out which boxes should be selected

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok. So is there enough streetlight in the square?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Should be yes, but the human is only interested in getting passed the prompt, not with accuracy so it's no. Which I'm pretty sure fucks with their AI training, but who cares.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

If the majority of those given that specifc question say so, then yes

If the majority given it say no, then no

There's no predefined answer here

One of creators of the captchas said in an interview that they themselves were never sure about the edges and if they should include it or not