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Michelle Elisabeth Varghese's avatar

I want to say I’m glad you wrote this and I found it so fascinating! I had heard the words were used to train data and I always wondered if I was training a model with the images. I can’t believe it’s not about the actual answer, that’s surprising to me. I also like to have my data private so maybe no surprise I fail these so often (it’s not me!) I’m glad you turned your own rabbit hole into an essay

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Rose's avatar

Hehe I had so much fun researching it!

Re privacy: there are some alternatives that keep your data private and don't train on the results, but they're not widely spread. And they don't keep bots out either so the problem is still there!

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sumedha's avatar

Really insightful! I never dug into how the captchas work and I also didn’t realise they’re google’s, so I might go around do some sleuthing to see the backend haha

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Rose's avatar

go ahead! the google one is a bit mysterious, but you can see a lot of hCAPTCHA if you dig a bit (their official docs are here: https://docs.hcaptcha.com/ )

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Karena's avatar

Ditto what @michelle said!!

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Rose's avatar

I'm glad you learned something :))

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LaLa ✿Indie Maker✿'s avatar

Thank you Rose for the Mention… Who knew…🤩

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Rose's avatar

It's so interesting!

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