reCAPTCHA

3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Luis von Ahn · said 10 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
von Ahn: reCAPTCHA digitized 2 to 3 million books annually
“There are a hundred million books that needed to be digitized. That was the total number of books that has ever been written, you know, before the digital era was one hundred million. At the pace that we were going, we were able to digitize about two to three …”
Luis von Ahn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:45 a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
reCAPTCHA required 10 matching user responses to establish ground truth text
“And the way we got the ground truth here is, is simply by having, you know, 10 different people agree with each other. So if you gave the same word to 10 different people and they all agreed that we consider that ground truth that to a very large extent that w…”
Luis von Ahn Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:48 a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge
Mar 21, 2025 neutral
Insight
Rocha: SaaS companies should reevaluate blocking bot signups via reCAPTCHA
“So even like small things like adding reCAPTCHA on the signup, To prevent bots. Now you have to think, do you really want to prevent bots from signing up? Maybe you don't, right?”
Zeno Rocha Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:36 Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
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