Porn in Exchange for Captcha Work

See presentation by Luis von Ahn at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143

He talks about how spammers use porn sites to correctly input captchas back in July of 2006.

He also talks about a lot of other stuff which is pretty damn mind-blowing.

Folks that haven't watched this talk... you should. It really got me thinking in new ways. There's a reason why von Ahn won a MacArthur ("Genius") Grant for his Human Computation work.

I _just_ commented about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71337

This is just plain brilliant!

yeah Amazon should take notes for Mechanical Turk haha

Somebody not hire this man!

This is well known.

Hmm. It would be nice if someone released a benevolent trojan that basically informed everybody that infinite porno is available via bittorrent. All in all, it would be nice to close down the manufacturing end of that business...