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Every time I fill one of these out I get the picture test, and I answer them correctly...but am asked 3-5 times to identify which blocks contain a school bus or

Every time I fill one of these out I get the picture test, and I answer them correctly...but am asked 3-5 times to identify which blocks contain a school bus or stop light. It's very annoying.

ivanbakel 8y ago
I think it's speculated that you're recorded as being a useful classifier if you answer correctly on initial test captchas, so you get given Google's datasets for machine learning. It would explain why you get picture tests even after you should definitely pass the check.
- kzzzznot 8y ago
  If that is true that is a huge breach of trust. Are these practices ever audited?
  - Scene_Cast2 8y ago
    By whom? For what? (Meaning - probably not, unless you count a few Googlers sanity checking launches)
- manmal 8y ago
  You mean, they still haven't managed to classify those storefronts correctly, after 3 years or so?
alexpetralia 8y ago
Yes - I feel at this point that our labor is simply being used to help provide training data for Google's algorithms.
- teej 8y ago
  I mean, this has been exactly the situation since recaptcha was invented.
- Theodores 8y ago
  This is not how it is supposed to be. In a parallel universe of fluffy niceness we willingly provide our help and in that way we get all those old books converted to ASCII and available for us to read online. Our efforts are for the good of mankind. Similarly with the newer challenges, we help the maps be up to date and again this is for the good of mankind and those needing help getting around. Clearly this doesn't work in an era where the 'don't be evil' mantra is long forgotten and people only see Google as some advertiser friendly capitalist monopolist beast. Google need to work on their relationship with their customers, to be a benevolent dictatorship of sorts. They are lousy at customer service and there are other pain points that they are ignorant to. I don't see how this helps.
  - JohnFen 8y ago
    > Google need to work on their relationship with their customers Google's customers are those who buy advertising. The rest of us are just cannon fodder.
XCSme 8y ago
How to label your ML data for free.
- pfortuny 8y ago
  Using highly trusted users thinking that they are just proving their honesty.
- hombre_fatal 8y ago
  By offering a free service to website operators that mitigates the ever-growing challenge of abuse on the internet that they and their users have to deal with. Seems pretty bilateral.
RidingPegasus 8y ago
The "hills" category is the worst. Have come to the conclusion it really means any patch of grass.

Every time I fill one of these out I get the picture test, and I answer them correctly...but am asked 3-5 times to identify which blocks contain a school bus or stop light. It's very annoying.

ivanbakel 8y ago

I think it's speculated that you're recorded as being a useful classifier if you answer correctly on initial test captchas, so you get given Google's datasets for machine learning. It would explain why you get picture tests even after you should definitely pass the check.

kzzzznot 8y ago
If that is true that is a huge breach of trust. Are these practices ever audited?
- Scene_Cast2 8y ago
  By whom? For what? (Meaning - probably not, unless you count a few Googlers sanity checking launches)
manmal 8y ago
You mean, they still haven't managed to classify those storefronts correctly, after 3 years or so?

alexpetralia 8y ago

Yes - I feel at this point that our labor is simply being used to help provide training data for Google's algorithms.

teej 8y ago
I mean, this has been exactly the situation since recaptcha was invented.
Theodores 8y ago
This is not how it is supposed to be. In a parallel universe of fluffy niceness we willingly provide our help and in that way we get all those old books converted to ASCII and available for us to read online. Our efforts are for the good of mankind. Similarly with the newer challenges, we help the maps be up to date and again this is for the good of mankind and those needing help getting around. Clearly this doesn't work in an era where the 'don't be evil' mantra is long forgotten and people only see Google as some advertiser friendly capitalist monopolist beast. Google need to work on their relationship with their customers, to be a benevolent dictatorship of sorts. They are lousy at customer service and there are other pain points that they are ignorant to. I don't see how this helps.
- JohnFen 8y ago
  > Google need to work on their relationship with their customers Google's customers are those who buy advertising. The rest of us are just cannon fodder.

XCSme 8y ago

How to label your ML data for free.

pfortuny 8y ago
Using highly trusted users thinking that they are just proving their honesty.
hombre_fatal 8y ago
By offering a free service to website operators that mitigates the ever-growing challenge of abuse on the internet that they and their users have to deal with. Seems pretty bilateral.

RidingPegasus 8y ago

The "hills" category is the worst. Have come to the conclusion it really means any patch of grass.