ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 24 days agoCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down10
arrow-up1188arrow-down1external-linkCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaremillie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·23 days agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-223 days agoThat was their selling point.
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·23 days agoThey had been used to help with text recognition for book scanning for more than a decade. It has never been secret, it was explained on them time ago. This is the logical progression, regardless of your feelings with “AI”
It is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
That was their selling point.
They had been used to help with text recognition for book scanning for more than a decade. It has never been secret, it was explained on them time ago.
This is the logical progression, regardless of your feelings with “AI”
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