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At an approx 750,000 hours in a human lifespan, they wasted 1100 human lives in totality. Unbelievable.

There's a dystopian short story in your comment about AI that can't self-bootstrap without ground-truth from humans, so they keep us around just to mark images, music, etc. Lives wasted annotating things. I like to think they'd drag us from solar system to solar system for this purpose.

Gosh. This is too perfect. I feel like you've just captured the exact moment we're living in.

So that's what they are doing inside the pods in The Matrix!

Does solving captchas generate $1000/hour? I assume you're conflating amounts here, or messed up an order of magnitude somewhere.

That's just the headline of the article.

The researchers put the vast majority of this value to tracking cookies, and this revenue happens whether or not a manual challenge is completed.

That's just the direct value, how about the whole dimension of training the AI models