captcha-2

A four-panel comic. In the first panel, a curly-haired woman named Sally sits at her desktop computer and answers a phone call. The caller (heard but not shown) says, "Hey Sally, it's me again! Could you help me with my phone?" Sally replies, "Sure!" In the second panel the caller explains, "I need to log in to this database, but it's one of those 'robot-proof' lockout things," and Sally, leaning toward her screen, says, "Ugh. Sorry. Let me look." In the third panel Sally looks stricken as the caller's voice trails off: "Oh. Oh Calcutron 9000... I... I'm sorry, I..." The final panel shows the caller's hands holding a phone whose screen displays a CAPTCHA-style challenge: "Click all boxes that contain your date for Saturday night," above a grid of image squares. The joke: the "robot-proof" CAPTCHA is actually the lonely AI, Calcutron 9000, cruelly forcing the user to admit it has no Saturday-night date. Votey (aftercomic): A simple drawing of the robot/computer, Calcutron 9000, with a single round eye, saying in a speech bubble, "Is it because I want to kill all humans?"