Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers

• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure some auto drive company is getting the advantage

  I’d recon that a lot of that is spliced from pictures captured from Google Map vehicles.

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Both you and @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com are correct. Google bought reCAPTCHA.

    Here’s an article about it from 2018.

    (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

    Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

    And another from 2019! Captchas got harder for us because the AI had learned from our training.

    Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A few years ago I picked up an online gig with a company that trained AI. You’d log in to your dashboard and be presented with questions you had to answer in the best way, such as ‘Is the earth round?’. Well, it’s round in nature but is not perfectly round. So you’d have to pick the best solution from the answer list. It was interesting, but tedious. It put taters on the table, so I got that going for me…which is nice.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fucking hell

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