recaptcha This is unethical software.

This is unethical software.

Open nexussays opened this issue 1 year ago • 10 comments

Google’s reCAPTCHA is an exploitative system disguised as a security tool.

Rather than meaningfully distinguishing humans from bots, it forces users to perform free labor to train Google’s AI for image recognition and content generation. While presenting itself as a necessary verification step, it extracts human effort at scale, refining machine learning models without consent or compensation.

Worse, it often fails at its supposed purpose, locking out legitimate users with impossible AI-generated images and broken accessibility features, while AI-trained bots bypass it with ease. This isn’t just frustration—it’s rage, despair, and psychological torment. reCAPTCHA doesn’t just steal labor; it actively inflicts harm, injecting helplessness and fury into moments of urgency, where real people, under pressure, are reduced to screaming at an unfeeling machine. And all of this suffering, all of this wasted human energy, serves only one purpose: maximizing Google’s profits.

reCAPTCHA is not security—it is a Kafkaesque nightmare, a dystopian labyrinth designed not for protection, but for corporate exploitation at the direct expense of human sanity.