Well this kind of stings. When we do those annoying little puzzles to prove we are not a robot, it seems we've been training AI. From Kim Komando, selected excerpts:
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"It makes you pick out every traffic light, crosswalk, bus, fire hydrant. You sigh. You squint. You wonder if that one corner of a motorcycle counts. Congratulations. You clocked in.
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Every time you’ve done that, you’ve been doing unpaid labor for a multibillion-dollar company. Literally.
Weird squiggly words helped digitize Google Books. Every test showed two words. The system knew one. You filled in the other. Humans transcribed roughly 13 million books for free.
Google moved to Street View. That’s why you started seeing storefronts, street signs and houses. You taught the algorithm to read addresses.
The traffic lights, crosswalks, buses, motorcycles and fire hydrants? That’s training Waymo. All for free. "
[/td]Weird squiggly words helped digitize Google Books. Every test showed two words. The system knew one. You filled in the other. Humans transcribed roughly 13 million books for free.
Google moved to Street View. That’s why you started seeing storefronts, street signs and houses. You taught the algorithm to read addresses.
The traffic lights, crosswalks, buses, motorcycles and fire hydrants? That’s training Waymo. All for free. "