See that’s something I’ve always been frustrated with.

No doubt they have my demographics, biographics, biometrics, and personal preferences stored in their cloud, then make me select a whole bunch of staircases to prove I’m not a robot.

to prove I’m not a robot.

Well I mean a) that’s usually a third-party site asking Google to do that on their behalf, but more importantly b) you, uh, ever wonder if your ability to show you can recognize staircases might not be the main reason why Google’s challenge is menial image recognition tasks representing untold billions of hours of unpaid labor?

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That was a given assumption. Free training for AI/machine learning

This is whats annoying. A while back, Google supposedly was improving Captchas from the silly letter typing. It was supposed to use your digital fingerprint or whatever I think. Part of the promise was “never see another captcha”.

But now they ade way more prevailent and fail more often.

Free AI training.

Back in the day they’d give you two words in wonky text. One word they knew, one they needed your help with to improve their ability to scan books and documents into a digital forget. They didn’t explicitly tell you what the purpose was, and wouldn’t tell you which is which, but if you knew what to look for you could figure out which is the “unknown” word and just put whatever you wanted into the captcha for it to mess with their dataset. Good times.

They’re just making sure your data points are still worth the hassle