I actually don't think that they are trying to punish people for not being logged in. If that were the case, they would make it clear that having a Google account and leaving it logged in, and using chrome would make the captchas appear less frequently or not at all.
In reality, I think they are telling people they were wrong in order to extract just a little bit more free machine learning data from them. And really, they don't actually tell you that you are wrong, they just keep feeding you new questions. This is most likely because they don't know whether your answer is correct or not. They are giving this specific question to a bunch of people, then comparing the answers to get a correct response for later.
So you might get a few training questions first, then end with a question that they already know the correct answer to so they can decide if you are trying or not.
It's quite brilliant and is going to really catapult Google ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to self driving cars. The cars will be able to use all the captcha data to not only train their ML models to recognize things like signs and whatever, but the ML won't even be fully necessary since they have the re-captcha volume to basically directly identify every roadside visual on the planet one by one.
In reality, I think they are telling people they were wrong in order to extract just a little bit more free machine learning data from them. And really, they don't actually tell you that you are wrong, they just keep feeding you new questions. This is most likely because they don't know whether your answer is correct or not. They are giving this specific question to a bunch of people, then comparing the answers to get a correct response for later.
So you might get a few training questions first, then end with a question that they already know the correct answer to so they can decide if you are trying or not.
It's quite brilliant and is going to really catapult Google ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to self driving cars. The cars will be able to use all the captcha data to not only train their ML models to recognize things like signs and whatever, but the ML won't even be fully necessary since they have the re-captcha volume to basically directly identify every roadside visual on the planet one by one.