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RE: Learn Something New Every Day Contest. Day 1
Hey , Great Contest, The thing I love is that when I read other people's comments my day gets enriched.
So here's something I learnt recently and it changed my perspective about Capchtas
Those annoying CAPTCHAs are actually being used to help digitalise decades of old texts — books, magazines and newspapers — that scanning programs struggle to decipher.
The reason the words are blurry or warped isn’t to test your patience; these are taken from scanned texts, which are often mistranslated by auto-digitising programs — or optical character recognition (OCR) software if you wish to get technical.
So we're helping them translate text for free which is another matter since a case was filed for free labour.
That is awesome I'm much happier about the whole captcha process knowing that
It is an interesting concept
I hate captchas... And now I hate them just a little bit more. Don't even get me started on why we shouldn't be trying to make Artificial Intelligence smarter.....
I hate them too, but I admire the balls it took to get free labour
Definitely takes a huge set to pull that kind of scam on such a huge level!