ooli2 ( ooli2@lemm.ee ) to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years 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-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1239
arrow-up1239external-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 ( ooli2@lemm.ee ) to TechnologyEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squaremillie ( millie@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·2 years agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-squareRailcar8095 ( Railcar8095@lemm.ee ) linkfedilinkarrow-up27·2 years 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”
minus-squarejagged_circle ( jagged_circle@feddit.nl ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoThat was their selling point.
It is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
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”
That was their selling point.
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