[ghuroo1]

That made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google.

[voisin]

At an approx 750,000 hours in a human lifespan, they wasted 1100 human lives in totality. Unbelievable.

[thechao]

There's a dystopian short story in your comment about AI that can't self-bootstrap without ground-truth from humans, so they keep us around just to mark images, music, etc. Lives wasted annotating things. I like to think they'd drag us from solar system to solar system for this purpose.

[taftster]

Gosh. This is too perfect. I feel like you've just captured the exact moment we're living in.

[djmips]

So that's what they are doing inside the pods in The Matrix!

[extraduder_ire]

Does solving captchas generate $1000/hour? I assume you're conflating amounts here, or messed up an order of magnitude somewhere.

[rozab]

That's just the headline of the article.

The researchers put the vast majority of this value to tracking cookies, and this revenue happens whether or not a manual challenge is completed.

[scubadude]

That's just the direct value, how about the whole dimension of training the AI models