@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 15 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-square43fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]hackernews[email protected]
arrow-up1238arrow-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.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 15 days agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]hackernews[email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish57•14 days agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink27•14 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.
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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