I was reading an article which proposes the implementation of “subjective” captchas (pictured on the right) to determine if the user planning input data was a machine or not. It would show a series of pictures where the user would choose a person considered to be “hot” or “not.” While this can be pretty judgemental, it still works as the machines should have a more difficult time analyzing image data like that than simply analyzing strings of text.
Among the people chanting that beauty was ultimately subjective, there was a comment which I found very interesting.
Saying that beauty is “subjective” is kind of a cop-out. It’s usually said by those of us who wish it was true. Just because one out of ten thousand people might find an ugly person remotely attractive doesn’t make that same person “attractive” anymore than a guy with a fat chick fetish makes an obese 800lb woman “skinny.”
