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Comment by zappo2938 | Hacker News Reader

Could be worse. Google has me training AI to do the same thing every time I choose all the pictures with train locomotives in a reCaptcha.

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I always wondered how many captchas were passthroughs to other captcha systems, using me as a mechanical turk component.

Definitely exists. I remember seeing a post a few years ago about a porn site that had "Type in these characters to get the next image" and had people solving captchas for them.

For a captcha to function properly, they already need to have this data I guess.

reCAPTCHA is famous for having 2 tasks. This lets them use 1 for training.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Criticism

Not only this, but given how much google tracks you, google has a good enough idea about whether you are a bot already, hence the "captcha" where you just press a button.

There are times they could give you that button but already knowing you are human they use you to train their AI.

I wouldn't be surprised if they also score you against how well you train AI, and give better trainers more captchas.

Google has so much data, any time you think "I wish we could do X, but we'd never get enough data", it's an opportunity that Google can move on but the rest of the world can't. That's another argument for breaking up monopolies.

> it's an opportunity that Google can move on but the rest of the world can't. That's another argument for breaking up monopolies.

Wouldn't this mean that it would be an opportunity that /nobody/ could move on?

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