Comments on: Security By Sexiness

By: Andy Hume

Andy Hume — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Amazing… I’ve not got a single hot man one correct. I clearly have shocking taste.

Clever though, although I don’t see why it has to be such a subjective test. Are there many bots out there that can accurately recognise simple objects within photos, eg. chair, car, newspaper, etc..?

And wouldn’t something as simple as “What’s this a picture of?” be effective in most situations?

By: Julz

Julz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great idea, but I’m afraid I’ll have trouble implementing that at work ;-).

However this idea could be “adjusted”, so that the test was for something else that was equally subjective, like which one is the kitten? (from a series of cats)

By: Jehiah

Jehiah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another dynamic is how racial groups play into things in addition to gender groups. People are rather bad at facial recognition when it comes to racial groups they don’t have much contact with; for instance i can’t tell many Asian faces apart, they just seem so similar. I assume the same problem applies here and someone from say Japan might not be able to pass the Hot Captcha test even though they fit the right gender group

… but then again, there is always a way to use that extra bit of info to your advantage as well

By: Phil Scott

Phil Scott — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was unable to get past this. I generally only could find one or two attractive girls per post, and then I just picked the one with the biggest boobs figuring that’s how most Internet voters would vote. Maybe my preferenc towards athletic or geek girls makes my taste in girls all mesesd up

By: Tigerblade

Tigerblade — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d hate to be one of the people that gets pulled for the “not” status. See, this is why I don’t post to sites like HotOrNot… I could end up being used as a captcha.

I can’t imagine how I’d do on the guys… not well I imagine. I’d prefer not to test my luck.

Very creative though.

By: Phil Scott

Phil Scott — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I take that back. I just went on an absolute tear getting 10 right in a row.

The real problem, of course, would come when someone happens upon themselves and has to pick someone else as being hot in order to login.

By: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Freaking brilliant.

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Haha, or they could just have you pick out the bad guys from a group of good guys. Anyone in the Bush administration would work just fine for this role.

By: Jeff Wheeler

Jeff Wheeler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wasn’t able to pass on either the male or female tests once. Uh oh. :/

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s a brilliant idea that’s probably been implemented in a slightly different way somewhere else. You could just as easily have photos of household objects and ask someone to click on 3 fruit or 3 kitchen utensils or 3 potted plants.

Also, I feel sort of guilty for supporting an objective system for ranking attractiveness. It’s one thing to vote from 1 to 10 but it’s another thing to think that this person is objectively unattractive and everyone else on earth will agree to that.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As a gay man it’s odd I couldn’t get thru the male test even once but had no problem with the females. I think they need to choose their male pix a bit more carefully.

By: Dan A

Dan A — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You know, I was going to ask about how well the gay male contingent would fare, but it seems Fitz has already answered. Great idea though, and I vaguely remember seeing one of these in place somewhere.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

While this is doomed to be unreliable because of the subject matter, and the subjectiveness of ‘hot,’ I can definitely see how it could be adapted for other uses, such as choosing a particular set of subject matter from a larger set of random images.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The site is down. Amazing what word of mouth on the internet can do.

I’m going to register fluffycaptcha.com and make people choose the three fluffiest kittens.

By: Tom Dolan

Tom Dolan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Same as Mike, I pick hot girls like a mindreader but I blow it (maybe a bad choice of phrase there) on trying to pick the third hot guy. Maybe there’s a more universal set of characteristics for ‘hotness’ for girls that has as much to do with the style components than the actual hotness — i.e., photographed in lacey underwhere, cleavage visible, etc. The hot guys don’t seem to be exhibiting any characteristics like this consistently that would help one ‘cheat’ — interesting tho.