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It’s very easy to opine about the ethics others should have. Different when it’s you and your family and a comparatively easy effort will make a material differ

It’s very easy to opine about the ethics others should have. Different when it’s you and your family and a comparatively easy effort will make a material difference in quality of life. And especially when you know ghe market need will be met by someone else anyway.

IWeldMelons 2y ago
If someone is making a brazen statement of being "a bad guy because 80K is not enough, and could not find anything decent for those extra $30K" what kind of treatment would they expect?
- xp84 2y ago
  I’d argue that someone cracking CAPTCHAs has a lot less dirty hands than someone who works in an actually scummy industry like US health insurance. Those companies literally kill people by denying them care to pinch pennies. This guy might cause a little more spam on the already useless mess that is YouTube comments. Who cares. I’d take the money, too.
  - IWeldMelons 2y ago
    Typical US-centric way of thinking. If your healthcare system is crippled it does not justify making internet mess for everyone else in the world.
  - lostlogin 2y ago
    I’d have suggested adtech before health insurers.
  - RHSman2 2y ago
    Tobacco pays real well
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  To be fair, there's a huge amount of people around here that work on the universal surveillance industry, and for many of them the alternative is way higher than 80k.
HeckFeck 2y ago
So you get a bit richer for less effort... but how do you think moderating legions of spam posts affects the lives of independent website owners, who just want to create communities around the things they love? Or indeed the users, who have to wade through trash invading their threads? Or other legitimate users, who now have to answer captchas from CloudFlare just to access their favourite websites? Ultimately this is a parasitical element, choking the internet. It will kill the things it profits from. Many will give up running these sites, you walk away with your $100k, and no one can ever do it again... you've not created anything of value, but destroyed it.
- Jerrrry 2y ago
  Hard to think anyone who can't solve a captcha is something other than a parasite. Parasites can solve captchas, people with accessibility issues and the poorest of people are the one being locked out.
  - lostlogin 2y ago
    It isn’t just those with accessibility problems that get stuck. Some are stupidly difficult- I’ve given up on one in recent times. Maybe my disability is CAPTCHA blindness.
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  - marcosdumay 2y ago
    Captchas are not only for stopping people with disabilities anymore. They also stop people using non-approved browsers, people trying to stay anonymous, people coming from the wrong geographic areas...
    - TZubiri 2y ago
      If the AI has access to a credit card, but Mgulu from Nigeria doesn't, then the system doing the filtering might evolve to filter out the 'undesirable' rather than the non human.
rad_gruchalski 2y ago
So says every drug dealer.
- qqqult 2y ago
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IWeldMelons 2y ago

If someone is making a brazen statement of being "a bad guy because 80K is not enough, and could not find anything decent for those extra $30K" what kind of treatment would they expect?

xp84 2y ago
I’d argue that someone cracking CAPTCHAs has a lot less dirty hands than someone who works in an actually scummy industry like US health insurance. Those companies literally kill people by denying them care to pinch pennies. This guy might cause a little more spam on the already useless mess that is YouTube comments. Who cares. I’d take the money, too.
- IWeldMelons 2y ago
  Typical US-centric way of thinking. If your healthcare system is crippled it does not justify making internet mess for everyone else in the world.
- lostlogin 2y ago
  I’d have suggested adtech before health insurers.
- RHSman2 2y ago
  Tobacco pays real well
marcosdumay 2y ago
To be fair, there's a huge amount of people around here that work on the universal surveillance industry, and for many of them the alternative is way higher than 80k.

HeckFeck 2y ago

So you get a bit richer for less effort... but how do you think moderating legions of spam posts affects the lives of independent website owners, who just want to create communities around the things they love? Or indeed the users, who have to wade through trash invading their threads? Or other legitimate users, who now have to answer captchas from CloudFlare just to access their favourite websites? Ultimately this is a parasitical element, choking the internet. It will kill the things it profits from. Many will give up running these sites, you walk away with your $100k, and no one can ever do it again... you've not created anything of value, but destroyed it.

Jerrrry 2y ago
Hard to think anyone who can't solve a captcha is something other than a parasite. Parasites can solve captchas, people with accessibility issues and the poorest of people are the one being locked out.
- lostlogin 2y ago
  It isn’t just those with accessibility problems that get stuck. Some are stupidly difficult- I’ve given up on one in recent times. Maybe my disability is CAPTCHA blindness.
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- marcosdumay 2y ago
  Captchas are not only for stopping people with disabilities anymore. They also stop people using non-approved browsers, people trying to stay anonymous, people coming from the wrong geographic areas...
  - TZubiri 2y ago
    If the AI has access to a credit card, but Mgulu from Nigeria doesn't, then the system doing the filtering might evolve to filter out the 'undesirable' rather than the non human.

rad_gruchalski 2y ago

So says every drug dealer.

qqqult 2y ago
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