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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Been saying this forever. They're Trojan horses designed to make the population of the world provide free labour for Google's AI ambitions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Well, yeah.

Recaptcha has always been "here's image recognition stuff, pls help for free" and hasn't exactly been secretive about that.

Have people just forgotten that already?