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The biggest irony on the internet is a computer looking at me and saying, “Please verify that you are human.”

My brother, you are the computer here. I am the one sitting in front of you, pressing the buttons, solving your stupid traffic lights and identifying bicycles just to prove that I am not a robot.

Sometimes the website will even ask, “Are you a robot?”

How am I supposed to answer that question with confidence when I am already beginning to question my own existence after clicking seventeen buses just to access one page?

You will select all the traffic lights correctly, identify the motorcycles, click every pedestrian crossing and still receive:

“Verification failed. Please try again.”

At that point, I am no longer proving that I am human. I am applying for citizenship.

Imagine explaining this to someone from 500 years ago.

“Your Majesty, I spent ten minutes today proving to a machine that I am not another machine.”

The funniest part is that the computer already knows more about us than our own relatives. It knows our location, device, browsing behaviour and sometimes even remembers what we searched three months ago, yet it still wants us to identify a crosswalk.

Technology has reached the stage where the machine is interrogating the human about whether the human is actually human.

It happen whenever I want to login to my nairaland account

Dpsychologist:
The biggest irony on the internet is a computer looking at me and saying, “Please verify that you are human.”

My brother, you are the computer here. I am the one sitting in front of you, pressing the buttons, solving your stupid traffic lights and identifying bicycles just to prove that I am not a robot.

Sometimes the website will even ask, “Are you a robot?”

How am I supposed to answer that question with confidence when I am already beginning to question my own existence after clicking seventeen buses just to access one page?

You will select all the traffic lights correctly, identify the motorcycles, click every pedestrian crossing and still receive:

“Verification failed. Please try again.”

At that point, I am no longer proving that I am human. I am applying for citizenship.

Imagine explaining this to someone from 500 years ago.

“Your Majesty, I spent ten minutes today proving to a machine that I am not another machine.”

The funniest part is that the computer already knows more about us than our own relatives. It knows our location, device, browsing behaviour and sometimes even remembers what we searched three months ago, yet it still wants us to identify a crosswalk.

Technology has reached the stage where the machine is interrogating the human about whether the human is actually human.

ORISHIRISHI EVERYWHERE 😂😂😂😂😂

wait till we get to the age of Ultron

Imalwayshorny:
It happen whenever I want to login to my nairaland account

I think that only happens when your VPN is on

Very funny 🤣.

Sometimes, me and my money, Opay will tell me the image no match.

I don't use VPN or proxy oo

Hollandia2030:
I think that only happens when your VPN is on

Imalwayshorny:
It happen whenever I want to login to my nairaland account

Wch is also an irony on its own...

Abeg wch one is not enough comment....naso una dun dey do here now

lol I know it’s funny but it’s used for training Ai ,

It's not an irony,you would be shocked at how many bots accessing the same internet we are on.

Normally humans are dumb

this shows you aren't vast with the cyber world.

Nonsense post. Can't believe someone considers this newsworthy.

You guys need to understand that as you are being told to solve all those 'robot verifications' on websites (especially cloudfare) the results from your 'clicks & selections' are all being sent over to various Artificial Intelligence Data Centres worldwide where they use your inputs to train their models to better recognise everyday objects in the human world like cars, buses, trains, cups etc

It is used to train Self Driving 🚗 AI, train LLM's etc so they can better serve you as a human 😉

No website wants to get DOS attack, so yes you may actually be another computer trying to infiltrate so a computer needs to confirm you are human.

What you don't know or understand is bigger than you.

Lol

Seems we churn out too many topics that at some point, we just decide to create a topic for creating sake.

It is well.

contentEngineer:
wait till the we get to the age of Ultron

What is the content of this age, and could you estimate how many years or millennia we are away from it?

noobody:
It's not an irony,you would be shocked at how many bots accessing the same internet we are on.

Trillions of bots accessing and indexing the internet.

Nwver looked at it this way. Honestly it's crazy

CaseSensitive:
No website wants to get DOS attack, so yes you may actually be another computer trying to infiltrate so a computer needs to confirm you are human.

The problem that a machine gets by not identifying human traffic from bot traffic is so complicated that it will take more than a thread to explain this phenomenon.

Apart from MITM attacks, it is getting funny that cloudflare and Google can't still get this right.

SeeWahala:
You guys need to understand that as you are being told to solve all those 'robot verifications' on websites (especially cloudfare) the results from your 'clicks & selections' are all being sent over to various Artificial Intelligence Data Centres worldwide where they use your inputs to train their models to better recognise everyday objects in the human world like cars, buses, trains, cups etc

It is used to train Self Driving 🚗 AI, train LLM's etc so they can better serve you as a human 😉

I don click buses, railways,mountains, fountain, traffic light yet humans facing same issues.

That is why I like telegram verification mode: what is 3+7?

Just put 10.

Hezzyluv:
Very funny 🤣.

Sometimes, me and my money, Opay will tell me the image no match.

But the same Opay successful verified me if I don't capture in a light place, as if my face colour blends into the night🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This life is unbalanced.

Its not the computer per se. Its the network security administrator confirming youre not a bot. But he has to do that thru a computer.

You need a heads up on clientside-serverside relationship.

TheStoriesOfMan:
The problem that a machine gets by not identifying human traffic from bot traffic is so complicated that it will take more than a thread to explain this phenomenon.

Apart from MITM attacks, it is getting funny that cloudflare and Google can't still get this right.

I totally agree, even CAPTCHA has its limitation and can only do so much. Advanced bots with coconut head nowadays simulates CAPTCHA behaviours.

Cybersecurity has and always will be a constant game of cat and mouse.

This dude and senseless sensational articles.

24SEVEN:
Its not the computer per se. Its the network security administrator confirming youre not a bot. But he has to do that thru a computer.

You need a heads up on clientside-serverside relationship.

Cloudflare API. Fires up when a new device opens a website for the first time.

CaseSensitive:
I totally agree, even CAPTCHA has its limitation and can only do so much. Advanced bots with coconut head nowadays simulates CAPTCHA behaviours.

Cybersecurity has and always will be a constant game of cat and mouse.

I pray they make CAPTCHA easy.

How many fingers do you have on your right hand? Five or 5

TheStoriesOfMan:
I pray they make CAPTCHA easy.

How many fingers do you have on your right hand? Five or 5

You pray they make CAPTCHA easy?

BOT IDENTIFIED! 🚨🚨🚨

TheStoriesOfMan:
Cloudflare API. Fires up when a new device opens a website for the first time.

Cloudfare API was developed by network security experts to prevent bots from phising. So ultimately it is humans that are responsible for that verification that bothers him.