ooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 13 days agoCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1237arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmit.online
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-linkCAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Googlewww.pcgamer.comooli2@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square44fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmit.online
minus-squaremillie@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·13 days agoIt is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·13 days agoThey had been used to help with text recognition for book scanning for more than a decade. It has never been secret, it was explained on them time ago. This is the logical progression, regardless of your feelings with “AI”
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-213 days agoThat was their selling point.
minus-squarearaneae@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoThis was obvious YEARS ago before LLM AI was even in the publics hands. So weird and creepy even then.
It is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.
They had been used to help with text recognition for book scanning for more than a decade. It has never been secret, it was explained on them time ago.
This is the logical progression, regardless of your feelings with “AI”
That was their selling point.
This was obvious YEARS ago before LLM AI was even in the publics hands. So weird and creepy even then.