ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 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-up1225cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1225external-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 · 2 days agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squaremillie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·2 days agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 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”
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days 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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