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The original reCAPTCHA was doing distributed book OCR. It was sold as an altruistic project to help transcribe old books.

• guappa 1y ago
  And now they're using us to train car driving AI :(
  • Aachen 1y ago
    I don't mind car driving AI, why the sad face? Maybe autonomous train training would be even cooler but it's not like improving tobacco products that only have downsides
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    • guappa 1y ago
      I mind working for free.
      • Aachen 1y ago
        You'd rather do busywork that you know will definitely not benefit anyone?