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That's the entire premise behind reCAPTCHA - if you've solved it, then we've sold useful real-world problems and can move onto the next ones. The original prem
by dsp1234 10y ago
That's the entire premise behind reCAPTCHA - if you've solved it, then we've sold useful real-world problems and can move onto the next ones.
The original premise of reCAPTCHA was to help crowdsource the digitization of books by providing spam bot prevention. It's slogan was "Stop Spam, Read Books." up until 2014.
- acchow 10y agoExactly. I had a typo where I meant "solved" but put "sold". reCAPTCHA directed the efforts in the spambots arms race towards a real-world problem - reading old books.