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Aren’t these Captchas designed to get training data for AI models anyway?

Yes and no, the captchas are just meant to be hard for computers to solve but easier for humans. People saw that, and thought that “if we’re making people do this might as well have them do something useful” not meant to be malevolent- and the purpose is still stopping bots, training them is a side-effect.

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
No, you’re wrong, the Traffic Light examples ARE specifically to gather data to train models. Being a good Captcha was just a byproduct of that. If people just wanted a good captcha they wouldn’t need hundreds of millions of photos of street lights and bicycles.

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- aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  No, you’re wrong, the Traffic Light examples ARE specifically to gather data to train models.
  
  No you’re wrong, because the sites that embed those captchas on their page are not doing that to help good.
  
  If people just wanted a good captcha they wouldn’t need hundreds of millions of photos of street lights and bicycles.
  
  Yes, they are getting something productive out of the human labor that would be done anyways. Trust me as a web developer, and web scraper, some kind of captcha is necessary for many free services to be useful/economically viable. The core of a good captcha is just making it marginally more expensive for the scraper/bot than it is for you.
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The sites don’t create the captcha, you yourself just said it was embedded there.
    
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    aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They embed for a reason… And the captchas wouldn’t exist if they weren’t embedded anywhere
    
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