Why can’t a robot just click “I’m not a robot”? Turns out the answer is part of a bigger story about being human.

The box test isn’t really about the box! It’s actually tracking other things about your behavior, like how you move your mouse as you go to check the box.

The tech is called reCAPTCHA “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. And these days, these tests are not about figuring out what makes humans BETTER than robots. They’re about what makes humans human. It’s the same question we’ve been thinking about for centuries.

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