Comment by nl
16 days ago
> making a business call to recommend the use of it as a captcha is significantly more meaningful of a prediction than any single paper from an ML research group.
That's not what this is. It's a research paper from 3 researchers at MSR.
Ok, I'll take it. It definitely wasn't a business call at the level of Microsoft saying that everyone should be using it, but it was an actual service offered under the Microsoft umbrella and used by many sites in the wild, e.g. via this MediaWiki extension [0], for 8 years [1].
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150207180225/https%3A//researc...