An adorable turing test

kitty.jpgHow annoying are those web form Turing tests* that make you copy illegible characters into a field to prove that you’re an actual human. There’s a new solution: kitties.

The KittenAuth Test prompts users to distinguish between the feline cute and various other shades of cute (e.g. owls, donkeys, hamsters, etc.). Besides being fun, it might just work better.

* I think this is taking a lot of liberty with the real definition of Turing Test, but I can never remember what these random character checks are called in generic form.

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