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0 pointsdrusepth5y ago0 comments

I never understood the mindset that finds joy in throwing off the datasets being trained on these kinds of captchas. Is it related more to the "rush" of cheating on a test in school (i.e. figuring out a way to "cheat" on the captcha), or rooted more in rebellion against Google/whoever?

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swebs5y ago

The second one. If someone were forcing you to perform slave labor for them, you'd want to do a crappy job as possible just to spite them.

philipwhiuk5y ago

It's "I'm being paid to crowd source Google's future billion dollar profits"

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swebs5y ago

The second one. If someone were forcing you to perform slave labor for them, you'd want to do a crappy job as possible just to spite them.

philipwhiuk5y ago

It's "I'm being paid to crowd source Google's future billion dollar profits"

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