Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months agoNo, 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.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The sites don’t create the captcha, you yourself just said it was embedded there.
aidan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They embed for a reason… And the captchas wouldn’t exist if they weren’t embedded anywhere
Guest_User@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Finitebanjo is right. Yes they are used to fight spam and bots but they way they do it us is picked intentionally to train ai.
medium.com/…/how-google-trains-ai-with-your-help-…
Also from the Wikipedia article “Google profits from reCAPTCHA users as free workers to improve its AI research.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes like I said, the challenges were picked to be useful. But some form of challenge would’ve been chosen regardless.