Comment by neltnerb
3 years ago
Lately I've seen captchas that ask me to identify things in images that are clearly generated with AI. Like frogs without backs.
I think at this point it is clear we are not training image recognition so much as providing them with free scoring for their image generation algorithms.
Just to be clear, are you saying that you saw the "frogs without backs" puzzle on Recaptcha? Because I definitely have not seen anything but the streetview images there for ages.
Now, if it is a captcha provider whose advertised business model is to sell access to the users for labeling and split the profits with the website that integrates their captcha (e.g. hCaptcha), then I can believe somebody would submit a image generation eval dataset. But it seems irrelevant to discussion of whether solving a Recaptcha is free work.
I mostly see streetview stuff, but twice I've seen one that had stuff like "which one is a ladybug" or even "which one looks like a blah without a blah".
This prompt of course could still be for classification of images.
But then the "ladybugs" often were heavily distorted to the point where they did things like morph into other animals or the background. They did not seem possible to be photos, but I could be wrong. The prompts were very odd.