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“Trumps a Slytherin” “NUH-UH! TRUMPS A GODDAMN MUDBLOOD AND I WILL CURSE HIS BITCHASS INTO OBLIVION!!!”

like. face recognition software is just a feature, right. but when ppl say it’s bad, there’s a MAJOR difference between someone going “the young people only like stupid things like snapchat filters and those face emoji things and thats why it’s bad” vs “a comprehensive database of what people look like, associated with their screennames and their browsing habits and all their contacts, is incredibly invasive and potentially dangerous and that’s why it’s bad”. 

Its called RECAPTCHA! The creator of CAPTCHA (Luis von Ahn) realised a lot of time was being wasted with CAPTCHA (worldwide we spend about 500,000 hours doing CAPTCHA every day)

So he wanted to put it to good use

The reason why CAPTCHA uses wonky letters is because computers can’t read them, but we can!

But when trying to automatically digitalise old books and documents this becomes a hindrance because computers often cant read the faded old letters. So the digitalising is done by humans (very costly and time consuming)

Anyway Ahn found out about these a integraded into captcha creating RECAPTCHA.

Everyday about 150 (sorry i meant 150 not 250) old books get digitalized this way. They are currently using it to digitalize the whole archive of The New York Times (since 1851)

reCAPTCHA Founded 2007. Overview reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher.