@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-square43fedilinkarrow-up1239arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1239arrow-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@ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square43fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-square@millie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglish57•1 month agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-square@Railcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilink27•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-square@jagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglish6•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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