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Show HN: DeCAPTCHA, free image hosting on IPFS

• fiatjaf 9y ago
  I like this a lot. Couldn't see any errors in the approach. I think it is sound and good.
• bubagrump 9y ago
  What's to stop a decently trained net (think like Image net level) from spamming the hell out of this?
  • lh42 9y ago
    In a strange way that would actually be great. One of the primary goals of the project is to build a big dataset of tagged images. If a bunch of bots went through uploading and then tagging all of the images on DeCAPTCHA, that would accomplish this goal even faster!
    • bubagrump 9y ago
      But doesn’t that defeat the purpose of captcha? Ie, you verify someone isn’t a bot?
      • lh42 9y ago
        You bring up a totally fair point for the set of images that are on it right now. But, as more users upload images that then must be tagged, the hope would be that eventually there is enough diversity in the dataset that being able to consistently recognize what's in the different images would require something approaching human intelligence.
        • bubagrump 9y ago
          GG