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You're assuming that reCaptcha is training some Google algorithm. But in fact it has trained you -- to recognise US style dangly traffic lights, yellow school b
by angry_octet 6y ago
You're assuming that reCaptcha is training some Google algorithm. But in fact it has trained you -- to recognise US style dangly traffic lights, yellow school busses and cabs, pedestrian cross walks -- and this makes me wonder if reCaptcha does use the same image set for all different locations. Are people in Lagos, Pune and Tashkent routinely failing reCaptcha at higher rates because they don't watch US television? How fast do they learn what a school bus looks like?
- KingOfCoders 6y agoI knew those already from being flooded for 40+ years with Hollywood films (all of them) and sitcoms, I know Cosby, Malcolm in the Middle, Beverly Hills 90210, Miami Vice, the Fall Guy, Seinfeld, Friends, Lou Grant, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Diff'rent Strokes, Cheers, Golden Girls, MAS*H (the best), Married... with Children, Three’s Company, King of Queens, Family Matters and on and on and on. Basically I know the US better - or the image it projects - than my own country. Funnily it was a huge letdown when I visited for the first time decades ago, as it felt just like a sitcom and there was nothing new really.
- TotallyHaram 6y agoThose images being exported to the planet are not representative of the USA. Hollywood is mostly Jewish and Homosexual, those are the products of these minds instead. I doubt actual American programming would resemble any of these sitcoms.
- Macha 6y agoEven in Europe I sometimes find reCAPTCHA more difficult for being "too American". Maybe we're categorised as "close enough" and there are south American or African datasets but I suspect not.
- TotallyHaram 6y agoOr maybe they are not required to solve the captcha because bot traffic from these nations is too sparse to have this make sense.