Google's monopoly power over who gets to send email is no joke. Try running a small email server and staying in Gmail's good graces. As in so many other areas (including the web), Google has made itself the de facto regulatory body over what was once a decentralized protocolhttps://twitter.com/akarl_smith/status/1288552266040049665 …
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Google will argue that it uses this regulatory power as a form of nerdesse oblige—fighting spam, securing the web by mandating the use of https, and so on. But it also clearly uses it for less noble ends, like the pressure on publishers to move to AMP or lose search ranking
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Google's hold on internet infrastructure is so complete that in GDPR countries, you can't even (partially!) opt out of Google tracking without doing free labor for the company, by performing an image recognition task in reCaptcha
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Genuine question- what makes an image recognition task considered free labor?
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By telling google whether some section of an image contains an object, you are creating a data point (image, section that contains object). This data point can then be used by an AI model to identify where the object in an image is located. That’s an example
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But recaptcha is/was traditionally used to verify someone is not a machine (ie google already has the correct answer and wants to verify that you can identify it), rather than to give google new human data. So I’m not sure if the OP is right
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They mix known data with stuff they want to classify
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