Google's reCAPTCHA v2 just labor exploitation, boffins say
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Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them
    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      (Derogatory) English slang for clever people, researchers, scientists. The Register isn’t exactly the most reputable of publications.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The utility of reCAPTCHA challenges appears to be significantly diminished in an era when AI models can answer CAPTCHA questions almost as well as humans.

    Maybe - but using an AI isn’t exactly free. Depending on how many captchas you’re solving this could be a significant cost.

  • argh_another_username@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    And the first one was what?! We began training their OCR then we trained the image recognition. With Google Rewards we were training their location recognition. It has always been free labor. At least with Google Rewards I’d earn money that I could spend in apps.