(Actual capture. I failed to solve it.)
At this point, I'll just close the tab rather than bothering to deal with this bullshit.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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Actually a science site I wanted to access.
No science 4 u
Send the screenshot to support and call them posers
Exactly. I loose interest and walk away.
Just don't use it too much and it tightens up again
I mean, they all reflect light because you can see them?
Trick question! They are all squares filled with pixels on a computer monitor, they emit light! The correct answer was "none of the above."
I've identified a bot account.
Trick trick question! Suppose I watched this on that one reflective LCD monitor with no backlight
Then all of the above would have been the correct answer.
But you didn't, did you? I can tell. You've got that "emissive display" vibe to you.
C'est ne pas un sock
Ah but even the LCD panel reflects some light or else I wouldn't have to stare at myself when I end up in a dark videogame cave.
I see...
I feel like autism makes these impossible for me. I have to try several times every time.
Tap the objects which have little in the way of micro surface roughness and reflect light in a mostly specular fashion
there
See, that actually makes sense.
Don't worry, more often than not its the same even for people without it. Like how tf should i know if the edge of the bicycle wheel just being slightly over the corner should be considered part of the bycicle or not
I would also be confused af. First, I would think it wants me to tap objects with a somewhat glossy surface, even though all of them actually reflect light. But having sorted the first trick in this question, I am now confronted with two other questions: is a body of water considered an "object"? Also, are those actually photos of a river or are they illustrations of a river? They don't look realistic to me... Because if they're illustrations then they wouldn't be particularly more reflective than anything else in this set of images
I hate these things
It looks like they have an AI generate all of the valid images.
They probably have a database of images and then come up with some BS prompt and having the AI generate the valid responses. But because everyone involved here seems to be an idiot, the prompts are stupid.
What in the AI dystopian future kind of BS is that?
Also I hate to pick nits, but it's technically "CAPTCHA" and not "capture." It's supposed to be an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
I thought that these had been cracked by AI already so I'm not quite sure why we're even being presented with it.
To train AI to solve them
Usually they're still used to label images for training AI
It is a screen capture of this ridiculous test though
Oh true! "Actual capture" sounds a bit strange to me if it's referring to a screen capture, but it's entirely possible that was OP's intent and I misunderstood.
I had one of these earlier tonight which was asking which of the pictured animals came from eggs. Only after clicking on the various birds and submitting (success) did I notice there was also a crocodile. I then really wanted to be able to redo it with the crocodile included and see if it knew crocodiles also come from eggs.
I did the same one and did select the crocodiles, which passed. I suspect the captcha has less to do with correct answers and more to do with analyzing mouse movements or something like that
Bob Ross would turn in his grave!
Thomas Kincade, vomiter of light!
Um akshually ☝️🤓 most of those objects don't reflect light they absorb light and they re-emit photons at a different energy level.
(Pre submission edit I fact checked this first and while it is true, the same can be said for photons reflected by a mirror, so op is basically right, they are all reflections)
Can you see it at all under any circumstances using any ability to detect light?
If so...
Maybe (3,2) is wanting you to notice the sun in the picture - or is it the eye of horus?
Can the sun reflect light?
Hypothesising that it probably can, theoretically; do humans have any test / measurement apparatus that might empirically prove it against the background emissions?
Do we need to wait for a 'Disaster Area' concert?
sorry if this should be an NSQ, I 'm sure enough as I care that this is nothing to do with the botty-detector. But I am interested in whether anything strange happens with high(ish?) densities of light.
Nice try, BOT!
Selecting all the water pics didn't solve it?
Not necessarily. hCaptcha is not very reliable in my experience. Sometimes it wants you to select multiple pictures but only shows one that matches the prompt. Or or gives you multiple matching images but still says you're wrong. Sometimes it tells you you passed but then doesn't bother setting the token correctly so you have to do it again. Of course all of these can combine until you solve variations of the same damn captcha thirty times in a row.
hCaptcha is such a horrible buggy mess that my base assumption is that I'll get trapped in an infinite loop anytime I see it.