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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, the reason they switched to those was to use the data to train machine learning (AI) models, just like Google's recaptcha was originally pictures of words from old, scanned books so they could transcribe all of them "for free" and train their transcription algorithms.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago

Man I miss the times when Google used to trick us into helping make knowledge more easily accessible to everyone. Now we just train fucking AI for luxury cars.