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Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing

Part of it is the sheer hassle of repeatedly identifying objects — traffic lights, staircases, palm trees and buses — just so I can finish a web search. I also don’t like being forced to donate free labor to AI companies to help train their visual-recognition systems.

https://onezero.medium.com/why-captcha-pictures-are-so-unbearably-depressing-20679b8cf84a