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I'm not saying that it's an unreasonable assessment on their part, but it is a large annoyance. My question is: are they doing this to simply get more training

• kbenson 9y ago
  > My question is: are they doing this to simply get more training data for image classification, reduce server load by minimizing automated traffic, or to sanitize their queries for human input for NLP models? As someone that works in an industry where CAPTCHAs have historically played a large role, and some players flat our use technology to bypass them, and do so using proxy and/or VPN services to get good IP addresses to do so, I imagine those automated systems both corrupt the CAPTCHA system somewhat, since it looks like a large corpus of humans behave in a certain manner and it's not humans at all. It likely also causes those IPs to be considered by the CAPTCHA system as highly suspect whenever encountered. For your next questions, the industry is event ticket resale, and no, we don't do that (there are aboveboard ways to function in this market that rely less on brute force and more on data mining and analysis for specific targeted investment, and sometimes long after it's been on sale).