As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.
This is from a few years back but I always find a chance to show everyone that google is a sus company. I decided to post this after reading and doing research on a separate yet somewhat related topic on how when you do CAPTCHA online you are usually training A.I. now and days.
If you wanted to know why there are more CAPTCHAs than ever before. Biggest insult to injury is that certain A.I.s can solve them 70% of the time
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