Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error

Re:Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error by ycmbntrthrwaway on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:52PM (#10860253)

The word you type is not going to be accepted just because it is similar to what it should be. It is double-checked multiple times anyway [0]. People like you just make OCRing slower, just as if you never typed reCAPTCHA at all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cygfx/4chan_is_using_...

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Re:Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error by kuschku on Thursday January 07, 2016 @03:46PM (#10860620)

That’s exactly the goal. To not give Google work for free unless they also share it with others.

If Google wants actually meaningful manual OCR from me, they can have it – under GPL license, of course.

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Re:Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:54PM (#10860264)

That seems to be his goal. To not help.

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Re:Google translated Russia to 'Mordor' in 'automated' error by kuschku on Thursday January 07, 2016 @03:50PM (#10860644)

Indeed. Google constantly takes work from volunteers, modifies it, keeps the modification under closed source, and heavily profits from them.

Helping a company that uses such a business model is not in my interest, as it means less volunteer power is available for actually open projects.

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