Doesn’t Google captcha leverage free labor to train ai? Every time I get one of their picture puzzles (click on all the pictures with cars, stores, mountains,etc...)I get about 2 wrong every time on purpose. Even government services like business searches in the state of Delaware, I constantly conclude, I’m being forced to train Google’s self driving cars, so I figure I’ll do the only thing in my power as a protest (unfortunately I can’t boycott the government systems).

I purposely leave one or two unclicked and click a false. I have often wondered how my behavior is classified and if at scale it would have any impact. My reasoning may be misguided and I’m sure impact nil, but it serves as a reminder to think about these systems, the things I do and why I do them. I also do similar things with chatbots, and sometimes I’ll add “thanks yous” and really try to interact genuinely, as though I don’t know I’m talking to a bot. I like to think the chatbot devs are somewhere highfiving putting screenshots of my chat in their slide decks.