People surprised to find out what clicking 'I'm not a robot' button actually does

Have you ever thought about what it actually means to have to convince a website you’re visiting that you’re in fact, a human? Well, people are surprised to find out what clicking the ‘I’m not a robot’ button actually does.

In our increasingly digital age, clicking a little box that says ‘I’m not a robot’ is a very normal part of life, but have you ever thought about why we do it?

Surely, it can’t be that hard to program a robot or some sort of AI to click on the box and confirm that it is human, even when it isn’t.

Turns out though, it’s not about if you click the box, it’s actually about the way in which you move your mouse and interact with your computer that is the best show of humanity there is.

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What the ‘I’m not a robot’ button actually does

When you’re surfing the web on any bit of tech, you’re probably completing loads of ‘Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart’ or CAPTCHAs as they’re more commonly known .

These are the little boxes you have to tick to confirm you are not a robot, or squiggly words you have to read or pictures you need to click on, all meant to slow an AI down.

However, have you ever wondered how clicking on a box tells a computer that we’re human?

Well, it turns out it’s much less about if we’ve clicked it or not, but the way we have clicked on it.

AI has already beat the CAPTCHA test

We recently covered an incident where ChatGPT’s new Agent actually successfully passed the ‘I’m not a Robot’ test, meaning that its movements were convincingly human.

CAPTCHA tests track the way we move our mice when we click and even look through our recent searches, if we’ve skipped from our emails, to a cat video on YouTube, to our ex’s Instagram, we’re probably human.

The way the AI may have got away with it was because it was encouraged by a human to undertake tasks, so there seemed to be a human element involved in the process.

Essentially it’s the cat video watching, social media stalking, email writing chaos of our daily lives which makes us human and CAPTCHA knows and appreciates that, but when you complete a CAPTCHA, your data gets analyzed.

So, carry on surfing the web sufficiently humanly like the little weirdos we all are, the internet depends on it.

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