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0 pointsalpaca12811mo ago0 comments

Google’s captchas have always been used for AI training as far as I know. For example the early versions where you had to type in two displayed words were used for Google’s book scanning program.

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pogue11mo ago

Well, the original purpose was to do OCR for things like the NYTs archives and other libraries. The part where you identify road signs & traffic lights was supposedly to train self driving cars. Now, it's apparently just more analytics & tracking for Google to sell you things. [1]

But, since LLM is so error prone & AI companies don't seem to want to pay humans to verify either the data being input into LLM training is valid, or the output is accurate, something like a forced CAPTCHA to be used for verifying correct LLM data by unpaid labor.

It's just a dystopian thought I had. I probably shouldn't have said it outloud (it might give them ideas).

[1] https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-tracking-cookie-far...

Suppafly11mo ago

>Well, the original purpose was to do OCR for things like the NYTs archives and other libraries. The part where you identify road signs & traffic lights was supposedly to train self driving cars. Now, it's apparently just more analytics & tracking for Google to sell you things.

You seem hung up on the idea of the original purpose being one specific thing. The original purpose was to create a dataset to train AIs, the first adopters were OCR programs and such, but it's not like it was created to only be used for that one thing.