Comments on: CAPTCHA Sweat Shops and Human Computation http://www.c4chaos.com/2007/05/captcha-sweat-shops-and-human-computation/ (hyper)streaming with passion and compassion Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Turil http://www.c4chaos.com/2007/05/captcha-sweat-shops-and-human-computation/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Turil Fri, 11 May 2007 11:37:31 +0000 http://www.c4chaos.com/2007/05/captcha-sweat-shops-and-human-computation/#comment-256 Yah, I was surprised that you still used the things for your blog here. I figured you'd heard about comment spam mills long before I did :-) There is at least one software program that works for blog comments just like the Gmail spam filter, where individual humans report spam as they get it and Google uses that info as a collective human spam filter. I think I read about it on ProBlogger. Personally, I just do my filtering by hand, which is dumb, but it's not annoying enough to make it worth my while to figure out how to instal and manage another piece of software. Yah, I was surprised that you still used the things for your blog here. I figured you’d heard about comment spam mills long before I did :-)

There is at least one software program that works for blog comments just like the Gmail spam filter, where individual humans report spam as they get it and Google uses that info as a collective human spam filter. I think I read about it on ProBlogger.

Personally, I just do my filtering by hand, which is dumb, but it’s not annoying enough to make it worth my while to figure out how to instal and manage another piece of software.

]]> By: Dave http://www.c4chaos.com/2007/05/captcha-sweat-shops-and-human-computation/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Dave Fri, 11 May 2007 06:55:19 +0000 http://www.c4chaos.com/2007/05/captcha-sweat-shops-and-human-computation/#comment-255 They've made relatively simple/cheap neural nets that can understand human speach in a noisy room with better accuracy than a human. I don't imagine it will be too long until they have them that can figure out captchas. Personally, I think I may need to offshore my blog commenting, 'cause I have about a 50% success ration on captchas. It sucks they're necessary. Here we go with another one! Keep your fingers crossed... They’ve made relatively simple/cheap neural nets that can understand human speach in a noisy room with better accuracy than a human. I don’t imagine it will be too long until they have them that can figure out captchas.

Personally, I think I may need to offshore my blog commenting, ’cause I have about a 50% success ration on captchas. It sucks they’re necessary.

Here we go with another one! Keep your fingers crossed…

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