[shadowgovt]

ReCAPTCHA was designed with this in mind: given that we had the need to distinguish humans from bots, it presents problems that are hard for bots to solve, where the resulting output is valuable. So the time consumed isn't wasted.

[wrkta]

It's wasted from the perspective of the end user.

[shadowgovt]

Not when the end user turns around and uses Google Maps which is now populated with higher quality fine feature information due to the training of the machine learning system on what traffic controls look like.

[denton-scratch]

Valuable to whom?