TIL that when you see a CAPTCHA, it might not just be training AI — it could be feeding a “CAPTCHA farm.”
These are rooms full of real people getting paid a few cents per solve, basically acting as reverse Turing testers. The irony? AI companies outsource their hardest puzzles to actual humans — often in developing countries — to keep their models learning.
We train AI to be human-like, and humans get paid like machines. Wild.
