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Looking To Spammers To Solve Hard AI Problems
An anonymous reader writes "With bots getting closer to beating text-based CAPTCHAs for good, New Scientist points out that when they do, OCR technology will at least have advanced. The article goes on to suggest that whatever kind of reverse Turing Test that comes next should be chosen to motivate spammers to solve other pressing AI problems, such as image recognition. Are there any other problems that criminal crowdsourcing could help with?"
To be insensitive, what value do they add as a user? Are they going to spend $1 on some product advertised on my site?
Isn't the Internet in many ways fractured into the free parts and not free? What difference does a 1/4 cent fee really make for me, advertisers, or anyone else who makes it work?
To be insensitive, what value do they add as a user? Are they going to spend $1 on some product advertised on my site?
You messed up. CAPCHA is not a test to tell if your viewers have any money. It is just a test if they are a human or computer.
If you want nothing but people who have $1 to spend at your site, what you want is NO capcha. Spammers after all have lots of money, and as you say you'd prefer them over those without $1.
Try implementing the correct technology and you will get your wish.