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It's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple. It's annoying but greatly helps accelerate research and development since da
by computerex 8y ago
It's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple. It's annoying but greatly helps accelerate research and development since data is king.
- corey_moncure 8y agoIf this is so, how does it know when I've mis-labeled?
- CamperBob2 8y agoBy showing the same images to thousands of other people and going with the consensus, I imagine. For any given label, if you pick a photo that few other people picked, it presumably considers that to be "wrong."
- captainbland 8y agoI think it works by labelling something like half the images, but doesn't tell you which is which. At least that's how the older text recaptcha stuff worked - you could easily identify the pre-labelled text by the kind of distortions they used and just enter any old gibberish for the rest. So actually the training stuff is extra work beyond just classifying you as human
- hanging 8y agoAnd would it be possible to sabotage via a botnet that submits all-incorrect responses?
- unclebucknasty 8y ago>It's using you as human labor to label data. That's why you have to solve multiple. That's actually not cool: recruiting your time under false pretenses to create value for themselves.
- SpelingBeeChamp 8y agoreCAPTCHA helps Google to digitize books that are too illegible to be OCR'd. Do you appreciate Google Books? It's not as bad as you're making it out to be.
- unclebucknasty 8y agoNo, I don't enjoy Google Books, but that's really not the point. If that's what I'm helping you do then tell me that and let me opt-in. Maybe I want to contribute. But, don't instead throw up a road-block to the service I'm actually trying to consume, under the guise of providing that service, then double my required effort to help you provide some other service. It's actually implemented as a dark pattern. If you want cheap labor then use Mechanical Turk or otherwise. But, don't steal thousands of hours of your customers' time under misleading pretenses.
- icebraining 8y agoGoogle isn't providing a service to you, they are providing a service to the site that uses the captcha. And they haven't put any roadblocks, the site did - by installing a captcha. You should complain to the site that decided to offload their captcha costs to you.
- unclebucknasty 8y agoFair point. But, does Google have any culpability here, as the service provider?
- icebraining 8y agoI don't see why they would. If some delivery service had an expensive pay-on-delivery model, and some ecommerce site decided to use it, but didn't tell you (the buyer) that they did, and so you got a surprising shipping bill on receiving the product, would you blame the delivery service? Your relationship is with the site, and so it should be their responsibility to inform you of the "bill" you'll have to pay to Google for using the site's captcha-protected services.
- MASM32_COM 8y agoso if we want to screw google write a bot that scrapes for captchas and gets them all egregiously wrong, all the time.