ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 month 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-up1232arrow-down10
arrow-up1232arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaremillie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·1 month agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 month 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@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 month 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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