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I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
by epgui 3mo ago
I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
- ben_w 3mo agoThis is in the article. Indeed, half the point for reCAPTCHA: That how Google could justify supplying reCAPTCHA for free, but not why people wanted to use them.
- chinathrow 3mo ago> That how Google could justify supplying reCAPTCHA for free, but not why people wanted to use them This and Pokemon Go for collecting videos: are there other examples of users doing the free work for $large_co?
- ben_w 3mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-checkout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-checkout
- ameliaquining 3mo agoThose were not "vision models" in the modern sense, but rather crude classifiers or OCR systems that were heavily dependent on human labor to handle many cases, because the vision models of the time sucked and were hardly capable of anything. The economic value of CAPTCHA-based data labeling went to zero when AlexNet (the first general-purpose vision model good enough for real-world use) was released in 2012; from then on, you could just have the machines do that work instead.