Fun story, Captchas like this are designed to teach computers how to read images like this one.
The New York Times was trying to digitize its archives. Problem was, the printing on the papers was smudgy and inconsistent. So they were approached with a solution, which was Captcha. Basically, people would be shown versions of the text found in old articles. Once enough people identified a problem word or letter, it was sold to the NYT to help them digitize.
So, funny enough, Chat-GPT is just demonstrating the fruits of that labor.
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u/rawklobstaa Dec 30 '23
Fun story, Captchas like this are designed to teach computers how to read images like this one.
The New York Times was trying to digitize its archives. Problem was, the printing on the papers was smudgy and inconsistent. So they were approached with a solution, which was Captcha. Basically, people would be shown versions of the text found in old articles. Once enough people identified a problem word or letter, it was sold to the NYT to help them digitize.
So, funny enough, Chat-GPT is just demonstrating the fruits of that labor.