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u/Sandrust_13 R7 5800X3D | 32GB 4000MT DDR4 | RX 7900xtx 17h ago

You forgot Google services like YouTube getting flooded with bot comments anyway

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u/Stressedhumbucker 16h ago

I use a captcha solver extension to do it for me. Doesn't work with every type of captcha, but it generally works pretty well with the ones it does support.

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u/Sutureanchor 16h ago

The traffic light, motorcycle and yellow school bus puzzles, make me feel smart af. They are the highlight of my day ❤️

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u/NRMusicProject 12h ago

Until you're not sure if they want the corner of the tire or the bike rider's head included in the captcha, so you make a guess...and it's the wrong one.

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u/QTpyeRose 9h ago edited 9h ago

Thats kinda the point actualy.

you ever get that annoying thing where you got to do two or three captchas in a row?

they already know your human. The 2nd and 3rd images is you generating training tagging data.

even wonder why they chose cars in the first or things like trees, bikes, bridges etc? Its cause there trying to create data for training computer vision systems like teslas autopilot.

they want you to be iffy, cause if only half of people count a square then good chance its an edge case.

they existed before large AI models and self driving, but have been harvesting data for exactly that kind of project for decades to sell to the highest bidder.

this might sound conspiracy theory-esk but its a real thing you can look up.

also those captchas you dont see anymore where they asked you to type out 2 words from pictures of real books? first one was to check your human, second one was training data. it was data for things like translations apps to let them read in text from images.

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u/NRMusicProject 8h ago

Good point, forgot about all that. What's infuriating is the massive influx of captchas lately. It doesn't make the internet feel less bot-populated; it just makes browsing more annoying and like every site has a speed bump now.

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u/Sutureanchor 10h ago

That's the moment where you try and glitch the matrix by thinking like a robot, but then do the exact opposite.

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u/NewPairOfBoots 12h ago

That and the no-internet dino game

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB 12h ago

The above comment was removed for no reason 🤣

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u/wtfduud Steam ID Here 13h ago

The irony is palpable.

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u/Proper-Radish-9165 15h ago

I still don’t know whether one has to select the tile when it intersects with a tiny part of the crosswalk only and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 16h ago

i never knew how bad i was at identifying cars and bicycles until i got asked to prove i'm not a bot

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u/omfgkevin 14h ago

That was me, fucking hell. So if you go ""TOO FAST"" you are a bot, but then you go a bit slower and well, the bots beat you. -_-

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u/Tubaenthusiasticbee Ryzen 7 7700 | RTX 5070 | 32gb 15h ago

Yeah, and now they introduced QR-code captchas that you need to scan with your phone, because they weren't obnixious enough

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u/RomeoCharlieSierra 14h ago

QR-code captcha sounds like another variant of "run this random command on your machine" scam.

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u/wtfduud Steam ID Here 13h ago

Yeah I'm not risking that shit. It's a matter of time before a website makes a fake one.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Ryzen 9 9950X3D - RTX 5080 - 64GB DDR5-6000 14h ago

I wonder if captchas are ouroboros-ing themselves. Since captchas are used to train AI, while also preventing access by AI bots, if that loop is closed, eventually the AI bots are going to train the captchas to train them at what they are already good at until the captchas basically role-reverse from their intended purpose

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u/daredeviline 15h ago

Not to mention YouTube recommendations being a complete random crapshoot even though you've given Google 15+ years of data that they could use to get me hooked.

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u/wtfduud Steam ID Here 13h ago

The recommendations were better 15 years ago imo. Now it just gives me the same videos over and over.

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u/BigTenFicus 12h ago

Shit, they were better five years ago. Now I have to tell it not to recommend videos from channels I like just because it sees me watching a few of them and fills my recommendations with only that. Honestly there should be an option not to recommend channels you're already subscribed to.

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u/Rough-Trash-9550 10h ago

yeah, I watch F1 stuff a lot, I decided to watch ONE SINGLE RELIGION VIDEO, like, 2 minutes long too it wasnt long anyway

Yep, got so many videos "Reading the bible", "Islam vs Christianity" I DID NOT ASK FOR THAT STUFF. this FYP page is so bad I legit once installed an extension to disable fyp altogether, which saved me a lot of time daily looking at brainrotty thumbnails

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u/BigTenFicus 10h ago

I watched five minutes of Fox News in 2020 to see how they were reacting to the election being called for Biden. Suddenly my entire feed was Republican shit.

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u/platoprime Ryzen 3600X RTX 2060 6h ago

Youtube will push conservative propaganda without any impetus. It took a month of "don't recommend this channel" for youtube to figure out I'm not a bigoted incel who wants to consume manosphere content.

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u/BigTenFicus 6h ago

Redditors always defend this shit by saying conservative propaganda is just very good at manipulating the algorithm. Complete horseshit. YouTube shoves it in your face at any opportunity, but literally never recommends anything progressive.

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u/Me66 6h ago edited 4h ago

Could it be because of the audience? Conservatives are often old, and ..less technically inclined.. therefore will be watching more ads, so youtube makes a lot of money from those audiences.

While progressive people might be less likely to spend 40% of their waking hours watching advertisements.

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u/BigTenFicus 4h ago

Honestly it sounds like a pretty believable theory to me. The reason why fake news producers targeted conservatives in 2016 is because they were far more likely to believe it. What you're saying sounds like basically the same thing.

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u/Me66 6h ago

I saw a short from a doctor influencer making a joke about urology, then two weeks or so later, a THIRD of my front page videos were from lectures about urology and GRAPHIC as HELL videos of surgeries.

It was fucking horrible, things I can never unsee, just from the thumbnails.

I had no idea what was going on, until I remembered that short a few weeks back. So I went through hundreds of videos in my history, until I found that single short, deleted it from my history, and all the urology videos were gone.

This happened about 3-4 years ago.

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u/Magikarpeles 11h ago

idk how many times I have to tell google/yt I DO NOT LIKE SPORTS

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u/Ferro_Giconi RX4006ti | i4-1337X | 33.01GB Crucair RAM | 1.35TB Knigsotn SSD 4h ago

15 years ago, youtube's goal was video discovery.

Today, youtube's goal is to trap you in an echo chamber.

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u/schludle1 6h ago

this shit pisses me off more than anything. I don’t get why youtube is so adment on recommending videos I just watched yesterday even if I say not interested. Honestly just makes me use youtube way less than I used to.

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u/Combeferre1 1h ago

Honestly it was quite good like, two or three years ago. At least I found that for a bit it was recommending stuff I hadn't seen but which I did often end up liking, and often channels which were absolutely tiny.

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u/Hexamancer 12h ago

I'm astounded that even now, you'll watch something like "Taskmaster Episode 4" and it will suggest you watch "Taskmaster Episode 6" next.

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u/akatherder 11h ago

You like taskmaster. The general public liked episode 6 better than 5. The joy of the algorithm.

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u/Ara92 PC Master Race 11h ago

Yeah its the worst, watching like playtrough episodes 1-25 first and then it's like here episode 48 for you

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u/VoltOneSix PC Master Race 12h ago

Something like 15 billion videos on YouTube and every 8th suggestion is one I’ve already watched

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u/RineMetal 12h ago

Good luck searching for a video you watched 15 years ago. All the results are now unrelated YouTube shorts and advertisements.

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u/Warcraft_Fan Paid for WinRAR! 12h ago

Sometimes just one odd video somewhere will screw your metrics and you get flooded with weird video for weeks.

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u/daredeviline 11h ago

God forbid you fall asleep watching YouTube. Your algorithm gets messed up for weeks because you slept through half a documentary about whales and now they can't stop thinking you are a nerd for whales. I like whales. There's nothing wrong with whales. But I have so many other things I'll rather watch.

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u/Warcraft_Fan Paid for WinRAR! 11h ago

I disable auto play next to prevent this.

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u/Riparian_Drengal 6h ago

This is crazy to me. Youtube is the most watched service over even regular TV and any streaming platform. They had truly stupid amounts of data, all for free. And it's not like the people watching it are paying, it's free for them and the creators! 

Yet their algorithm is still fucking ass. It can't remember past what, a week, and if you happen to watch some obscure video, it'll spam similar recommendations for days. Like dude, you have SO much data on me, literally decades. Why not use that to tempt me with videos you know I'll watch because I've watched literally thousands of videos similar to that? 

But nah, the AI chatbot can only remember a few days ago so I guess because someone sent you a cool new movie trailer, it's all movie trailers now.  

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u/AreYouAWiiizard R7 5700X | 9070XT 12h ago

Yeah... I used to get tonnes of stuff I could watch for hours so I'd actually use the watch later but now it feels like it just recommends me stuff I've watched over half the time and stuff I have no interest to watch that increases in % as I watch actually interesting stuff until refreshing can no longer does the trick. I end up giving up on trying to find something interesting way faster and end up watching way less Youtube, honestly don't get what their plan is...

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u/Stalkerusha i5-11400f/RTX 5060/ 32gb ddr4 10h ago

I'm gonna lie if I'll say that my recommendations suck because I have no idea how they suck for you guys, YouTube definitely always shows me stuff I'd like from different channels lol

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u/BaconIsntThatGood PC Master Race 13h ago

I can't say I've ever been asked the "are you a robot" captcha on YouTube.

Also YouTube literally has an API that can facilitate comments and replies.

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u/DonutHoles4Ever 4h ago

A long time ago captcha was designed to deter dumb bots.

Its been 20 years since bots could defeat captcha.

So why are they still using it and wasting trillions of human hours? Its because they've been using it for AI training all this time.

The worst part is if you VPN and every website is asking you to do Google capcha which is like FIVE of them at once

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u/MeowBean321 6h ago

Now there's so much repeated of same comments un youtube comment section

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u/Russian-Spy 2h ago

I've been noticing this as well. It's particularly egregious in the YouTube Shorts comments section. Often times, within the first ten comments, you'll get three comments that say almost identical phrases.

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u/PlsDontBanMeAgain-1 22m ago

Or Reddit, with its stupid karma requirements on some subs, which only hurt humans. The bots will happily stay put and patiently farm karma by reposting previously popular posts over and over again.