“They weren’t taken by humans, and they weren’t taken for humans. They are by AI, for AI. They thus lack any sense of human composition or human audience. They are creations of utterly bloodless industrial logic. Google’s CAPTCHA images demand you to look at the world the way an AI does.”
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A widely accepted premise of AI design is that it should be designed to be more and more indistinguishable from humans, à la the Turing test. It’s part of pop culture, research culture, and education culture, and for 50 years it’s been the dominant metric of progress. Think of chess, image generation, and ChatGPT. All of these involve making AI do... See more