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That made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google.
by ghuroo1 2y ago
That made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google.
- voisin 2y agoAt an approx 750,000 hours in a human lifespan, they wasted 1100 human lives in totality. Unbelievable.
- thechao 2y agoThere's a dystopian short story in your comment about AI that can't self-bootstrap without ground-truth from humans, so they keep us around just to mark images, music, etc. Lives wasted annotating things. I like to think they'd drag us from solar system to solar system for this purpose.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoDoes solving captchas generate $1000/hour? I assume you're conflating amounts here, or messed up an order of magnitude somewhere.
- rozab 2y agoThat's just the headline of the article. The researchers put the vast majority of this value to tracking cookies, and this revenue happens whether or not a manual challenge is completed.
- scubadude 2y agoThat's just the direct value, how about the whole dimension of training the AI models