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The most clever, if unsavory, way that I've seen someone solve this is by building a free adult website and requiring users to solve captchas to view the conten
by mkmk 3y ago
The most clever, if unsavory, way that I've seen someone solve this is by building a free adult website and requiring users to solve captchas to view the content.
Once they had a regular stream of people solving captchas, they started selling the ability to insert the captcha you need solved in the visitor stream.
- geraldhh 3y agogenius!
- joshavant 3y agoSimilarly, Google purchased reCaptcha and ended up harnessing the stream of human interaction into that to, among other things, classify all of their Street View content (e.g. select the stop lights/bridges/license plates/etc).
- bhasi 3y agoI've always wondered: wouldn't they need to have already classified those captchas for them to determine whether the user has made the right selections? If so, doesn't that defeat its "real" purpose of getting people to do that classification work for them?
- lgas 3y agoIt would appear that asking multiple users and taking the consensus does the trick.
- munificent 3y agoI believe this is the answer. It works especially well here because there's no easy way for multiple bad actors to collude and generate a false consensus.
- newaccount74 3y agoThey can show you some objects that they already classified and some objects they are unsure about.
- Cheer2171 3y agoThat's why you have to do multiple tasks in one verification. Some are against a known ground truth and used as verification, but you don't know which one.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y ago[dead]
- sakjur 3y agoIIRC, back when it was text, you were shown two words and could type anything for one of the words (typically the easier to read word) and the other word would be a word they’d intentionally blurred a bit to use for the actual captcha check.
- grahamjpark 3y agoGood podcast on the creation of recaptcha: https://pca.st/zze1abc4 https://pca.st/zze1abc4
- Grimblewald 3y agoGet enough people to do the same thing and take the consensus.
- KomoD 3y agohCaptcha does the same, they offer a data labeling service
- moonchild 3y agoVideo hosting is expensive—is that really enough to cover costs?
- KomoD 3y agoWell, they probably had ads too. And they might've not been hosting the content, instead just embedding a player from some other adult site.