CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

@ooli2@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

@millie@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

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

@Railcar8095@lemm.ee · 2 months 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”

@jagged_circle@feddit.nl · edit-2 2 months ago

That was their selling point.

@araneae@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

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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

CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google