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by epgui 2 hours ago
I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
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This is in the article.

Indeed, half the point for reCAPTCHA: That how Google could justify supplying reCAPTCHA for free, but not why people wanted to use them.

> That how Google could justify supplying reCAPTCHA for free, but not why people wanted to use them

This and Pokemon Go for collecting videos: are there other examples of users doing the free work for $large_co?