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It was the same when this was about words from old books. I always had to fill in letters the average person would have thought it to be, not what it actually w
by bildung 9y ago
It was the same when this was about words from old books. I always had to fill in letters the average person would have thought it to be, not what it actually was (e.g. the letter "f" for what really was an "s" in gothic type).
Nowadays it's much easier, you can click anything that looks vaguely the same (e.g. boxy things for cars, ads for traffic signs, traffic signs for store fronts etc.). The fact that it's so easy to poison the training set makes me very wary about the autonomous car future...
- MisterTea 9y agoI actually like poisoning them. Not to be malicious but I feel manipulated into training their software for free. "Oh you wanted to sign up for that web forum? Sorry, but you have to do some free work for us first" And if you think that it's somehow good because it's mutually beneficial to train AI to better the future of humanity, don't. That is what their marketing department wants you to think.
- dazmax 9y agoThe value they're providing is to the forum owner, who has reduced spam-handling workload. So the forum is providing you value, you are providing Google value, and Google is providing the forum value.
- kuschku 9y agoSure, but if the public has to provide Google with free data, we should make laws requiring Google to open source the entire ReCaptcha training set.
- operon 9y agoWhy?
- kuschku 9y agoAnything created with free work should be free in return. Anything created by the public should be available for the public.
- snupples 9y agoOr it could be both what their marketing department wants you to think, and also reasonable.