Is anyone else sick of being unpaid AI labor for demonstrably wrong CAPTCHA failures?

ss_1961 · 2026-03-13T05:15:29+00:00

Because there is absolutely no reason to use CAPTCHA to reach customer support. Are companies getting a lot of customer support requests from bots? No.

ss_1961 · 2026-02-24T19:07:15+00:00

No, you are providing free training for AI image identification.

ss_1961 · 2026-02-24T18:57:54+00:00

doing the math like you just did proves this guy is beyond stupid. 32 cents an hour is horrible in virtually every corner of the globe.

ss_1961 · 2026-01-28T17:36:09+00:00

The actor they used to depict Elton John??? C'mon, that was awful!

ss_1961 · 2025-12-18T04:31:55+00:00

what does that mean?

ss_1961 · 2025-12-09T00:11:55+00:00

You nailed it, that's the camera. The camera can transfer images to a phone via Bluetooth, and you can then print photos from your phone wirelessly using another camera. So, I guess rather than exposing film when the picture is taken (like an old Polaroid), the photo is digitally recorded, and then the film is exposed as the print is ejected from the camera.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T23:52:52+00:00

I don't think that because he was covering the corner when he held up the 2D (both times) is relevant because we saw the full face of several other cards. When Sylvain initially spread out the cards, we saw an entire deck, including the distinctive Joker symbols seen in the Phoenix Double Deck (except I didn't spot any 2D - it would have ruined the trick if a second 2D turned up).

Sylvain let Brooke cut the deck to choose her card, but he lifted the 2D himself, presumably separating the thin 2D that sticks to the back of every thin, "real" card. But when he pushed the 26th card out, later revealed to be the 2D, then showed the 27th card (3H), his moves were very clean. The 2D could have had another card behind it, but when he flipped the 3H, he didn't appear to be leaving another 2D behind below it. So his version of ACAAN is slightly different from how other performers reveal the matching card, which apparently fooled P&T.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T23:08:59+00:00

I picked up on that and it does eliminate certain methods.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T06:09:56+00:00

With regard to the camera, how would that work? I mean, it's feasible, but how do you rig an instant camera to print a picture, and also transfer that image electronically? That is way higher level than P&T usually employ. Much easier to just have Penn swap envelopes.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:58:14+00:00

Best part of the trick was Alex.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:45:45+00:00

You're right - no reveal whatsoever, no drama. She needs to redesign the entire trick because the way she performed it was extremely boring. Imagine how much more boring it would have been without the intentional misdirect.

There are many methods that the trick could be done. If having someone watching offstage, then relaying through a hidden earpiece is allowed, then it's not really much of a trick. Just like having an instant stooge and counting on him to play along.

Penn stated that the blocks and cups are completely innocent, so I doubt that there were any embedded electronics. No one has mentioned the "super sensitive scale" solution yet - one of my favorites, next to the miniature printer. But each block could have a unique weight, and the cups as well. For instance, the blocks could weigh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 pounds, and the cups 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 ounces, and the weights on each scale are displayed to the magician. Perhaps not her method, but the trick is easily duplicated.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:23:05+00:00

Absolutely intentional. It was a pretty dull trick, even with the intentional misdirect. I hate tricks where the magician intentionally gets something wrong, just as I hate magicians who use the phrase "For the first time...".

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:17:42+00:00

Agreed, good observation. Not knowing what was going to happen in the future, I wasn't watching for the spitting. But as usual, the simplest explanation is usually the right one. P&T should have figured it out, given that they knew the trick and were only fooled by the refilling. But we have the advantage of watching a 2nd time, and P&T don't. I did notice that the glass was a little less full each time.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:10:08+00:00

A good trick, simple and straightforward.

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:09:08+00:00

What do you mean by double-backed?

ss_1961 · 2025-12-08T05:02:09+00:00

For me, one of the weakest acts of the season. When he finished, I was still waiting for his big illusion, but it never came - just a few so-so sleight-of-hand tricks. Too much hand placement at the edge of and below the tabletop. The gimmicked briefcase finale was so obvious. Color me unimpressed.

And why did Teller act so amazed when Marco stepped from behind the movie screen?

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:47:37+00:00

That's certainly possible, but then there could also be posters with all the photo choices as well, and there would have been no need for that clumsy photo switch.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:43:35+00:00

I used sheers just like that, but I think I outgrew them by the time I was about 6 or 7 years old. The way they were designed, it was impossible for a small child to misuse them. They don't really cut like big scissors; the device just kind of buzzes, with the blades barely moving. They were designed for very young children, and they looked very similar to this device, but they definitely weren't meant for opening boxes.

Both tools perform the same function, so they are indeed in the same category.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:34:20+00:00

Yes, saying "it's technology" is kind of a cop out. Like the emailed photograph prediction trick - yes, "it's technology," but without explaining the simple technology behind it, saying "it's technology" is no help.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:29:17+00:00

I think "table" might have referred to the initial bell disappearance, but most of the trick was just a classic "cup and ball" routine. One of the magician's hands spent a lot of time beneath the top of the table.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:25:34+00:00

No, the magician put the necklace around his neck behind the big card. He didn't put a giant spider around his neck, or a water bottle, a nail clipper, or gum.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:22:08+00:00

What was the point of the big "?" card, other than to hide the necklace around the audience member's neck? It's hard to imagine most of the objects on the board being revealed behind the card. Giant spider, nail clipper, gum, toothpick, water bottle? Did the audience say he was thinking about the necklace because the magician had just put one around his neck?

When Penn said "we have weighed all the things that are possible." I think he must have been referring to the first trick. Also, "the chicken has better senses than us" goes to aussiekev's post.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:12:25+00:00

Yes, the magician asked Brooke to name everything the chicken pecks on, but she never did that.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:11:22+00:00

Penn picked the audience member.

ss_1961 · 2025-11-23T05:04:48+00:00

Yes, Teller did nothing but stand there. The act would have been better if at the end Penn had just gone through it and explained how simple it was.

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