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Yes - I feel at this point that our labor is simply being used to help provide training data for Google's algorithms.
by 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 agoI mean, this has been exactly the situation since recaptcha was invented.
- Theodores 8y agoThis 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.