• panCatQ@lib.lgbt
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    1 year ago

    They were never a test to evade bots to begim with, most capchas were used to train machine learning algorithms to train the bots on ! Just because it was manual labour google got it done for free , using this bullshit captcha thingy ! We sort of trained bots to read obsucre texts , and kinda did the labour for corps for free !

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      1 year ago

      I heard Captcha was being used as training data for self-driving cars. Which probably explains why almost all of them ask you to identify cars, motorcycles, bridges, traffic lights, crosswalks etc.

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        1 year ago

        Both are right. The older ones with squiggly letters, numbers or that ask you to identify animals or objects were being used to train ai bots.

        The ones that ask for crosswalks, bikes, overpass, signs etc are used to train self driving ai.