Re:Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ e...
by Freak_NL on Monday May 01, 2017 @01:30PM
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> Applies machine learning to extract data.
Not only machines are let loose on that data. Ever try to open some websites through a VPN or Tor? Often you'll be presented with Google's Recaptcha tool to verify that you are not a robot but a genuine human visitor (to prevent spam and DDOS attacks). To gain access to the website itself you are enlisted to train Google's algorithms to properly recognize objects on outdoor photographs — including but not limited to mountains, store fronts, house numbers, and cars.
A recent 'innovation' has you freehand draw the outline of traffic signs.
All unpaid labour, all for a huge proprietary dataset.
The old Recaptcha system of proofreading OCR scanned words from books at least had some public merit.
Not only machines are let loose on that data. Ever try to open some websites through a VPN or Tor? Often you'll be presented with Google's Recaptcha tool to verify that you are not a robot but a genuine human visitor (to prevent spam and DDOS attacks). To gain access to the website itself you are enlisted to train Google's algorithms to properly recognize objects on outdoor photographs — including but not limited to mountains, store fronts, house numbers, and cars.
A recent 'innovation' has you freehand draw the outline of traffic signs.
All unpaid labour, all for a huge proprietary dataset.
The old Recaptcha system of proofreading OCR scanned words from books at least had some public merit.