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[[wikipedia:ReCAPTCHA|'''reCAPTCHA''']] was acquired by [[Google]] in 2009 and has since been used to protect websites from [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|botting]], crowdsource transcription work, and to mass train Google's other technical ventures such as artificial intelligence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=von Ahn |first=Luis |last2=Cathcart |first2=Will |date=16 Sep 2009 |title=Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA |url=https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917225140/https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html |archive-date=17 Sep 2009 |website=Google Blog}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated -->|title= Google recaptcha intro on using reCaptcha to improve automation |url=https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems. |website=google.com |access-date=2025-02-15}}</ref> Google faced criticism over this crowdsourcing and training for using unpaid labor from millions of daily users around the world, even sparking an ultimately unsuccessful class action lawsuit in Massachusetts in 2015, with the court dismissing the amount of time spent by each user completing a CAPTCHA as "something for which [no] reasonable consumer would expect to receive compensation".<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><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 Feb 2016 |title=Case No. 15-cv-03751-JSC |url=https://casetext.com/case/rojas-lozano-ex-rel-all-other-persons-similarly-situated-v-google-inc |website=United States District Court for the Northern District of California}}</ref> | [[wikipedia:ReCAPTCHA|'''reCAPTCHA''']] was acquired by [[Google]] in 2009 and has since been used to protect websites from [[wikipedia:Internet_bot|botting]], crowdsource transcription work, and to mass train Google's other technical ventures such as artificial intelligence.<ref>{{Cite web |last=von Ahn |first=Luis |last2=Cathcart |first2=Will |date=16 Sep 2009 |title=Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA |url=https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917225140/https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html |archive-date=17 Sep 2009 |website=Google Blog}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated -->|title= Google recaptcha intro on using reCaptcha to improve automation |url=https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/?hl=es/index.html#:~:text=Every%20time%20our%20CAPTCHAs%20are,and%20solve%20hard%20AI%20problems. |website=google.com |access-date=2025-02-15}}</ref> Google faced criticism over this crowdsourcing and training for using unpaid labor from millions of daily users around the world, even sparking an ultimately unsuccessful class action lawsuit in Massachusetts in 2015, with the court dismissing the amount of time spent by each user completing a CAPTCHA as "something for which [no] reasonable consumer would expect to receive compensation".<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><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 Feb 2016 |title=Case No. 15-cv-03751-JSC |url=https://casetext.com/case/rojas-lozano-ex-rel-all-other-persons-similarly-situated-v-google-inc |website=United States District Court for the Northern District of California}}</ref> | ||