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CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It is incredibly obvious that CAPTCHAs are at the very least a way of exploiting distributed labor to train AI.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    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"

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