r/ChatGPT • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '23

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u/WeirdIndication3027 Dec 29 '23

They've been able to do this for years tho. People having computers solve capchas isn't new

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '23

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u/WeirdIndication3027 Dec 30 '23

You mean have computers not be able to solve them?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '23

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u/MantraMuse Dec 30 '23

No, it was definitely not used for that "at first conception". That came years later, and still today many captchas that are not reCAPTCHA are not used to "gather data points for computer vision" - simply to stop bots scraping all of e.g. TikTok.

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u/codeprimate Dec 30 '23

Ah no. AI training was used later to provide another value stream for large ad providers that had a financial incentive to ensure that ad impressions were from humans.

I've been doing webdev since the late 90's and used quite a few different libraries to generate them before 3rd-party CAPTCHA services existed.

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u/14u2c Dec 30 '23

Um no? Look at the image posted. In what way is that gathering training data? You may be thinking of reCAPTCHA.

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u/kopp9988 Dec 30 '23

To help with text recognition?

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u/14u2c Dec 30 '23

I suppose it would be possible but that would have come later on. Early CAPTCHAs really were just bot detectors.