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TIL about CAPTCHA farms: AI pays humans pennies to prove they’re human (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/til@lemmy.ca

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TIL that when you see a CAPTCHA, it might not just be training AI — it could be feeding a “CAPTCHA farm.”
These are rooms full of real people getting paid a few cents per solve, basically acting as reverse Turing testers. The irony? AI companies outsource their hardest puzzles to actual humans — often in developing countries — to keep their models learning.
We train AI to be human-like, and humans get paid like machines. Wild.

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