Porn in Exchange for Captcha Work

jakewolf · on Oct 30, 2007

See presentation by Luis von Ahn at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143

He talks about how spammers use porn sites to correctly input captchas back in July of 2006.

altay · on Oct 30, 2007

He also talks about a lot of other stuff which is pretty damn mind-blowing.

Folks that haven't watched this talk... you should. It really got me thinking in new ways. There's a reason why von Ahn won a MacArthur ("Genius") Grant for his Human Computation work.

far33d · on Oct 30, 2007

I _just_ commented about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71337

gabrielleydon · on Oct 30, 2007

This is just plain brilliant!

ambiversive · on Oct 30, 2007

Somebody not hire this man!

chaostheory · on Oct 30, 2007

yeah Amazon should take notes for Mechanical Turk haha

mynameishere · on Oct 30, 2007

This is well known.

Hmm. It would be nice if someone released a benevolent trojan that basically informed everybody that infinite porno is available via bittorrent. All in all, it would be nice to close down the manufacturing end of that business...