reverse-captcha

A six-panel comic. A woman with red hair excitedly tells a deadpan man she has invented a new way to tell bots from humans: a robot will send something in, but a human will never bother to comply. Her example test is a demand to "prove you're human by faxing a page from your TPS returns from three years ago" — if an attempt is made within 15 seconds, you're a robot; otherwise you're a human, because real humans are too lazy to do tedious tasks. The man says "I don't get it." The final panels switch to a black silhouette of the two figures, with the woman declaring laziness the savior of humankind. The joke is that human laziness becomes the proof of humanity. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-lettered note reading "Note the clever use of a silhouette panel for a punchline about laziness" — poking fun at the artist drawing simple silhouettes instead of detailed figures because it's less work.