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0 pointsYetanfou6y ago0 comments

When confronted with reCAPTCHA I always switch to the audio-version as that:

- is generally easier to solve (download the sound clip using curl or wget, type in the nonsense it says, done)

- does not turn me into a mechanical Turk training Google's AI

- works in 'any browser' by circumventing the browser (by using wget/curl), thereby not allowing Google to punish me for not using their dragnet/browser.

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atomwaffel6y ago

> does not turn me into a mechanical Turk training Google's AI

I’ve been wondering about that. Are you sure you’re not training their speech recognition AI?

YetanfouOP6y ago

No, I'm not sure. It deem it unlikely though as those sound snippets are rather short and uncomplicated, something which I'd think any reasonable STT-system should be able to handle - which makes it vulnerable to those systems as well.

zuppy6y ago

I'm using the audio too. The image captcha is simply broken, it often doesn't let me pass even though I've provided the only valid answer.

epanchin6y ago

While you find this convenient, others may find it imperative.

Somewhat akin to labelling your pet dog a support animal or using a disabled bathroom.

yathern6y ago

More like walking up the handicapped ramp because the stairs are covered in oil and slippery.

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