• panCatQ@lib.lgbt
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      11 months ago

      They were never a test to evade bots to begim with, most capchas were used to train machine learning algorithms to train the bots on ! Just because it was manual labour google got it done for free , using this bullshit captcha thingy ! We sort of trained bots to read obsucre texts , and kinda did the labour for corps for free !

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        11 months ago

        I’m pretty sure they began as bot filters. That’s what they became