CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by unishark on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:06AM (#25237070)

> Given that the first market for AI-driven vehicles seems to be western nations, specifically the US, it is no surprise that google gears its captcha program to objects from that area.

This is a roundabout way of just saying the most obvious explanation (sites with US-centric captchas are presumably mostly interested in US users anyway) but wrapped up in an unnecessary conspiracy layer to add creepiness.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by howLongHowLong on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:26AM (#25237139)

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-security-captchas-crowdsour... (Not the best source perhaps, but I just picked one among dozens) It's not a conspiracy theory, it's actually true that captchas are used as data for self-driving car algorithms, and that the data would be useless unless it was relevant to things those cars are likely to encounter. The reason they're so common is they are distributed for free, for the same reason: more data. I often feel like I ought to get paid when presented with an annoyingly long queue of them.

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by dafoex on Saturday November 28, 2020 @12:36PM (#25238950)

Given Google tracks everything about me, there's no reason why they can't find-and-replace "crosswalk" with "zebra crossing" to match my locale. Its not a conspiracy, its just laziness on Google's part

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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by sandworm101 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:41AM (#25243848)

What conspiracy? Google has been rather open about this for years.

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