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by hnphillipj 2758 days ago
never thought of this.
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But how does Captcha know that your answers are correct? There's likely already a predictive model that knows (within some confidence intervals) which ones are the 'correct' answers - someone had to label that data to begin with! Chicken, meet egg.
They display the same pictures to multiple people and have some kind of agreement algorithm.