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Recaptcha is a free mechanical turk for Google. Right now they re training waymo's cars, but soon they 'll need to train other networks. Prepare for "Click on a
by buboard 7y ago
Recaptcha is a free mechanical turk for Google. Right now they re training waymo's cars, but soon they 'll need to train other networks. Prepare for "Click on all images showing intraductal papillary biliary neoplasm". C'mon, don t be lazy
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- LeonM 7y agoThis conspiracy theory has been debunked many times.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThe conspiracy theory of "google is doing what they promised to do"? Half the point of recaptcha was classifying images.
- stordoff 7y agoWhat conspiracy theory? That's what Google say it is for: > Hundreds of millions of CAPTCHAs are solved by people every day. reCAPTCHA makes positive use of this human effort by channeling the time spent solving CAPTCHAs into annotating images and building machine learning datasets. This in turn helps improve maps and solve hard AI problems. https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/v3.html (under "Creation of Value - Help everyone, everywhere - One CAPTCHA at a time.")
- hnburnsy 7y agoJust wondering but does this explain why the images always seem to be driving related like traffic lights, crosswalks, bridges, etc.