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Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy

Posted by Soulskill on from the industries-exist-for-everything-these-days dept.

Anti-Globalism points out an analysis of India's CAPTCHA-solving industry posted at ZDNet. It begins: "No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of data processing while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHAs, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major CAPTCHA solving companies. The consolidation, logically leading to increased bargaining power, is resulting in an international franchising model recruiting data processing workers empowered with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA syndication web based kits, API keys, and thousands of proxies to make their work easier and the process more efficient."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:Proof that by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually AI is both going to kill the "captcha solving community" soon enough, and solve the spam problem, but a bit later.

    Unfortunately you can also bet that China (and the democrats) are going to use it to select "acceptable" viewpoints only.