• AliLunaCat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Google’s recaptcha is used to help train image-recognition programs (like all those ones having you identify signs/bicycles/stoplights help Google’s self-driving cars)
      They used to have the 2 words, where one word was the control and one word was from a physical book that Google was trying to digitalize

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        1 year ago

        same deal with the ones with matching the orientation of something with a given direction being pointed at; it’s training 2d-to-3d AI image generators

      • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        How does that make it acceptable? I’ve had to do like 6 minutes of free labor in the past 10 years. Google owes me like $6-10 for that bullshit.

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          Since i started getting in to online privacy, I’ve been stuck in captcha-purgatory a lot…it just keeps loading a never ending stream of new captchas for me to solve.

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            Yeah, there was a chunk of time where there was some spat going on between them and VPN providers, and whenever I would wind up on an exposed VPN server every single captcha would take over a minute of clicking through different prompts. Happened so frequently for the fastest server that I just switched to Firefox and DuckDuckGo because I couldn’t stand getting hit every single time I googled something. Not just every session, but literally every single search.

            The worst was when it would test me for several minutes straight, and then have the gall to tell me to start over again. Google’s really been racing to the bottom lately.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I noticed now that Google maps has little icons for traffic light positions. Years of our work and AI learning for…fuck all. I CAN SEE THE FUCKIN LIGHTS IRL

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      1 year ago

      Does lemmy signup use reCAPTCHA? Because I’m starting to think I’m a robot when trying to sign up new accounts. lol. I’ve never had such a hard time getting it right on the first time. Or maybe my eyesight is just getting bad.

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        1 year ago

        I always use the audio for Lemmy captcha because some of the letters are ambiguous