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[–] casualhippo@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago (16 children)

We all knew this day would come, now it's just a matter of making different captcha tests to evade these bots

[–] jungekatz@lib.lgbt 49 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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 !

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

[–] ShadedCosmos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought this was a rumor?

Edit: Nevermind. Looked it up.

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