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It's an ethical distinction for some. I am completely fine with a type of captcha that helps improve some public domain or free/libre licensed resource (e.g., p
by Freak_NL 10y ago
It's an ethical distinction for some. I am completely fine with a type of captcha that helps improve some public domain or free/libre licensed resource (e.g., proofreading words scanned from public domain works). I am not okay with helping some megacorporation sanitize their proprietary database or training their machine learning neural networks for free.
As mentioned elsewhere in this topic; I'd much rather spend some of my free time to help improve OpenStreetMap (and I do).
- arjie 10y agoBut what if it's a generic captcha. It doesn't improve anything. Are you okay with that?
- m_t 10y agoA generic captcha doesn't use the work done by the user. I'm not the person you're replying to, but I think I can guess what could be their answer.
- arjie 10y agoWhat would it be? It's not clear to me. Going from throwing away the work to improving Google's image recognition is a Pareto improvement so I'm interested in the justification.
- yjftsjthsd-h 10y agoNot everyone is using the same ethical model as you?
- arjie 10y agoProbably. If they were why would I ask them to justify their position? It would trivially correspond with mine.
- Freak_NL 10y agoBut to me this is not a Pareto improvement (i.e., this is subjective). I consider the bolstering of the hold Google (and Apple, and Amazon, and Microsoft) has over a number of common domains (and in a broader sense our lives) to be undesirable and unethical. So when I correctly teach Google's proprietary image recognition software what a traffic sign, mountain, store front (ugh, these are the worst), or tree is, I am (even in the strict economic sense of a Pareto improvement) harming myself.
- arjie 10y agoAh. All Right. Thanks.