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Who is the intended audience? Some of them appeared to be westernized Japanese words, so even after seeing which ones were the right answer, I still don't know what those ones were.

Other than that, it is kinda cool searching through the distortions.

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The most likely audience are probably machine learning researchers, because they'd know about the ImageNet ILSVRC classes: http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2014/browse-synsets

If you see what appears to be transliterated Japanese and it's not "kimono", you're probably dealing with some kind of animal, like an Agama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_(lizard) or a Basenji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basenji , neither of which are Japanese.

It's a reverse captcha. Only robots can answer all images with ease, while humans will have difficulties.

I didn't have any problem at all. Couldn't find one I didnt get on the first try. I fail maybe 30% of captchas haha.

U, Robot.

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