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Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 55 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    To be honest, most of what they use now is pretty easy for machines to do. Mostly because they've been using the captcha to train ocr and self driving.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    OMG is that why I always have to identify bicycles and crosswalks? That makes sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    And started off with letter identification to help with reading scanned books. For example, place 3 known 'R's tell users to select all R's. If majority of people select 4 R's then that unknown 4th R becomes a known letter

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I knew that function. And improving OCR felt like a worthwhile endeavor to crowdsource. There are a lot of old books that we need to digitize before we lose them forever.

    The pivot to recognizing things for self-driving cars makes a lot of sense, but I really don't like the idea that I'm increasing shareholder value for Tesla.

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