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"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |website=Phys.org}}</ref> ~~captcha test~~

"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |website=Phys.org}}</ref>

==Consumer impact==

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===Crowdsourcing of labor===

Services such as [[Google|Google's]] [[reCAPTCHA]] have been found to be using human input to perform transcription work or train machine learning models without user consent. In 2015, a class-action lawsuit attempted to argue Google should pay its users for their labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Jan 2015 |title=Civil Action No. 15-10160-MGM |url=https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |website=United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts}}</ref>

===Use on Consumer Rights Wiki===

When it malfunctions, its use here is a problem. There is a known issue with new talk pages; see [[Help:FAQ#I can't see the CAPTCHA on the discussion pages. How can I leave my reply?]]

==Alternatives==

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-"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |website=Phys.org}}</ref> captcha test
+"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart" or [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] was invented in 2000 as a means to deter [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|bots]] and [[wikipedia:Spamming|spam]] on publicly available websites.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Burling |first=Stacey |date=15 Jun 2012 |title=CAPTCHA: The story behind those squiggly computer letters |url=https://phys.org/news/2012-06-captcha-story-squiggly-letters.html |website=Phys.org}}</ref>
 ==Consumer impact==
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 ===Crowdsourcing of labor===
 Services such as [[Google|Google's]] [[reCAPTCHA]] have been found to be using human input to perform transcription work or train machine learning models without user consent. In 2015, a class-action lawsuit attempted to argue Google should pay its users for their labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 Jan 2015 |title=Civil Action No. 15-10160-MGM |url=https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1904&context=historical |website=United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts}}</ref>
+===Use on Consumer Rights Wiki===
+When it malfunctions, its use here is a problem. There is a known issue with new talk pages; see [[Help:FAQ#I can't see the CAPTCHA on the discussion pages. How can I leave my reply?]]
 ==Alternatives==