Скачать или смотреть CAPTCHA is Worse Than You Think

Every day, we collectively spend 500 years solving CAPTCHAs. Those little tests where you click traffic lights to prove you're human.

In this video, I break down how CAPTCHAs actually work, what happens to your answers, and why the lack of transparency is a bigger problem than you think.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:22 - What Is CAPTCHA?
1:13 - The Hidden Purpose
3:11 - AI's Labor Problem
3:43 - Final Thoughts

Sources & Further Reading:
Research & Articles:

"The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing" — Hara et al., University of California, Irvine
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05796
"Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs" — Cloudflare Blog (2021)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/
"reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures" — von Ahn et al. (2008)
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/reCAPT...
Wikimedia Foundation CAPTCHA Replacement Announcement (2025)
https://diff.wikimedia.org/

Music
🎧 Music from Epidemic Sound
https://share.epidemicsound.com/0xmwvk

Images & Video
Licensed under Creative Commons from Pexels and Wikimedia Commons

Stay curious. Stay human.