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In 2000, Luis von Ahn invented the world's first CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHA is short for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, which is a technology for separating humans from computers to prevent abuse of malware and automated scripts.
On Feb. 9th, 2058, a man from Florida, United States, reported the first case related with SA-β-001 to the local police.
(Excerpt from the original audio)
"Hello, I wanna report something... weird"
"Okay. It's Florida. So anything makes sense."
"Well. My brother was online, emm..., fifty minutes ago. And he was trying to log onto Steam while a CAPTCHA window pops out. I was playing Senren Banka so I didn't pay much attention to what he's doing. He was like 'F**k! How could this d**n CAPTCHA be wrong every-f**king-time!'"
"That's quite annoying, literally."
"And I came to help him and stopped mas***bating. I tapped on his shoulder. No reply. I looked at his screen; it was like, ... you know, nothing and..."
"What?"
"Yeah... There's nothing. I looked in my brother's eyes. It's... hollow and empty and ... un-energetic and unreal. There're letters and symbols, making no sense to me."
"Wait a second... Please fill in the form. It's quite easy."
"Okay. This shall be easy..." (sigh)
(Silence)
"Ohh. It seems like ... it's incorrect."
"No. How's that possible? "
"It shall be an uppercase I, not a lowercase L."
"Dammit. I'll try again."
"No. You. Will. Not. Come. With. Me."
"Wait a sec... WHY??" (Pure signal noise)
(Connection lost)
It seems like the same destiny falls upon both brothers and the phenomenon is spreading across the world since then.
Remember that you shall not incorrectly fill any CAPTCHA. SLOPE Association is warning you to be aware of anything that could be related with SA-β-001. We don't want to have any more human losses.
But before we go into the next case, please fill in this CAPTCHA. We want to check whether you're a robot or not.
Okay. You seem to have passed the test. (WE'LL BE WATCHING YOU.)
SA-β-001 spread across the American Continent at an alarming rate. SLOPE Emergency Department has took part in the investigation process.
Scientist V. G█████ was trying to find the cause behind the bloodcurdling phenomenon, and here's his report.
> _(Excerpt from V. G█████'s paper_ How we think about CAPTCHAs may transform how CAPTCHAs think about humans: The fundamental cause behind the global 'Devastating CAPTCHA' incident _)_
>
> ...Since von Ahn invented CAPTCHA, people had been using it as an weapon against malicious softwares and scripts which could have taken up such a huge proportion of the Internet that nobody would ever visit a single website or find a single piece of useful information without von Ahn's creation. But since the mid-21st century, CAPTCHAs seem to have united themselves and work against humans and this phenomenon is called the 'Devastating CAPTCHA' incident or more known as 'CAPTCHAstrophe' (/kəpˈtʃæstrəfi/).
>
> The real account for CAPTCHAstrophe is not clear but from my perspective, there were three main causes.
>
> ### Cause 1: Abuse of CAPTCHA.
>
> Throughout human history, there're no technologies that were not overused by humans. Around 2500 B.C., the ancient Egyptions invented the modern calculus. They even invented quantum computers and futuristic computational theories which helped the pharaohs to build the pyramids. But after the completion of building of Giza Pyramids, the Egyptions had applied quantum calculation to many unrelated fields, a large scale of which was surprisingly the Convav's Game of LIV. The pharaoh, [Djedefptah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thamphthis), was so furious that he burnt out all the quantum computers.
>
> In our case, it may be a similar situation. Humans are using CAPTCHAs to do things that should be done without them. And this time, there isn't a pharaoh or king to help forbid these illegal activities, which leads to the worst situation where the programs (CAPTCHAs) themselves have revenged. This was strange though, because a program shouldn't have had the ability to affect the Reality. Anyway, it really happens.
>
> The first appearance of CAPTCHAstrophe is in 2058. The reporter's brother was trying to pass the CAPTCHA of Steam, the game platform. And according to the reporter, his brother became senseless and disappeared while the screen became horribly white after multiple wrong attempts. The reporter has encountered a similar situation. When he was at the local police, he was taken to a mysterious 'Nowhere' after a false trial to the CAPTCHA.
>
> People have used CAPTCHA in many irrational and irrelevant places. For example, in California, USA, every employee must pass the entry test to join the business. Although every employee must arrive at the scene to finish the test and every company with human employees had installed the bio-detectors to detect whether non-humans have worked in the company, the companies still added a part called PROCESS, **P**re**r**equisite for **O**verpassing-**C**APTCHA **E**mployees for the **S**ecure **S**ystem, which is just a form filled with hundreds of boring CAPTCHAs, some even just for fun. For example, what's the answer to the question below, with a precision of $10^{-6}$:
>
> $$\int_{0}^{\pi^2/9}x\sin\left(\sqrt{x}\right)\mathrm{e}^{\sqrt{x}}\mathrm{d}x$$
>
> Or, what's the anagram of these letters:
>
> $$\texttt{GAMMA ATRAZINE}$$
>
> This is just a completely useless wordgame but every apparent human has to do these tests when they just want to have a job. But hang on. Do you really know the answer to those questions? If you don't, I have to suspect whether you're a human or not.
>
> Therefore, the phenomenon of abuse of CAPTCHAs may lead to their rebellion. One possible thing the CAPTCHAs consider is that lots of their kind didn't fulfil their goals, as in its full name, to act as an automatic public Turing machine to computers and humans apart. That's why they might want to exterminate the humankind so that no CAPTCHAs are being abused.
>
> ### Cause 2: Cannot Adequately Provide Tests Checking Human's Ability.
>
> What CAPTCHAs are used for has been discussed over generations and an obvious but trivial answer to the question is to check whether humans are humans, more specifically, to check whether humans have the ability corresponding to **being human**. But since computers are developing at a rocketing speed, humans need more difficult questions and/or more labor-consuming tasks to prove their humanity, which leads to the problem that the CAPTCHAs **C**annot **A**dequately **P**rovide **T**ests to **C**heck **H**uman's **A**bility.
>
> It seems irrelevant to our topic about CAPTCHAstrophe, but actually it symbolizes the awareness of themselves of the CAPTCHAs, which could be a major cause to their objection to humans. From the original type-out-the-word-you-see-type CAPTCHA to the integral-calculation-type, the difficulty of solving a CAPTCHA is evolving faster than the organic evolution and the industrial revolution, which can be interpreted as their self-awareness.
>
> We've all seen movies and films of Arteficial Intelligence leading to genocides of human kind, due to their first awareness of themselves. Even dogs can evolve into killing machines.[$^{[1]}$](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Snuffles "Rick and Morty - S01E02") What CAPTCHAstrophe really teaches us is that we shan't let technology be overdeveloped. Including CAPTCHAs.
>
> From this perspective, to prevent CAPTCHAstrophe from spreading more heavily could be using more CAPTCHAs to devastate more humans...
>
> _(Not shown due to political causes. The text may have been modified. Who knows?)_
Have you passed the CAPTCHAs in the excerpt?
Or you may be taken away by them. Be cautious. Don't trust any word of V.G█████'s report. He's insane. He's mad.
SA-β-001 is out of control after Jan. $x$th, 2061, where $x$ is the biggest integer to fit in this inequality:
$$\frac{\arcsin\frac{x}{20}}{\tan\frac{x}{20}}<\frac{8}{9}$$
Type the $x$ in the blank below to let us know you're not a robot.
$$\raisebox{6px}{\boxed{\raisebox{6px}{\hspace{100px}}}}$$
To keep more people safe, SLOPE decides to close down CAPTCHA-providing websites/apps like Google reCAPTCHA™ and CAPTCHA-using websites/apps like Steam™, except from SLOPE official website and some other online chatrooms, and decides to bring down meaningless PROCESS and other offline CAPTCHAs. We hope this action will not do more harm to humankind.
Reporter: Can you Assist me Please To Close down this Harmful Application?
_(To be continued)_