Filling out captchas helps google train AI models

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Mon Jun 27 05:25:20 PDT 2016


On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:29:17PM +0000, Mr Nobody wrote:
> I just discovered that the reCaptchas that you usually bump into when
> using tor are not only a way to distinguish humans, but also they use
> your replies to train artificial intelligence modes
> 
> https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html#creation-of-value
> <https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html>
> 
> Tor users helping google with image recognition lol
> 
> -- 
> http://tornews3zbdhuan5.onion
> 

There are lots of captcha libs out there that dont depend on or
report back to google, e.g. secureimage (https://www.phpcaptcha.org/),
I'm sure there are similar for node/js, python, etc..

-- 
John 
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