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CAPTCHA

6 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 25, 2020 by Luis von Ahn · said 47 times in 3 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (35), Luis von Ahn (12)

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Everything said about CAPTCHA, oldest first

May 25, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Von Ahn: Yahoo deployed CAPTCHA live within a week of receiving code
“What was amazing is within about a week of when we sent them this, it was already functional. You know, live. It was live.”
Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 ▶ 13:05 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
May 25, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Von Ahn: No money was exchanged when giving CAPTCHA to Yahoo
“No, no, no, no, no money was, no money exchanged hands.”
Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 ▶ 13:37 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
May 25, 2020
Assertion Supported
Von Ahn: Early CAPTCHAs wasted 500,000 hours of human time daily
“I did a little back of the envelope calculation, realized about two hundred million Times a day somebody types a captcha. And that's when you get two hundred million times a day times 10 seconds. So humanity as a whole is wasting about 500,000 hours a day typi…”
Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 ▶ 20:24 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Von Ahn: No money was exchanged when providing CAPTCHA to Yahoo
“No money was, no money exchanged hands here.”
Luis von Ahn Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 13:49 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Dec 18, 2023 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Von Ahn: Yahoo deployed CAPTCHA live within about a week of receiving code
“What was amazing is within about a week of when we sent them this, it was already functional. You know, live. It was live.”
Luis von Ahn Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 13:17 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Dec 18, 2023
Assertion Supported
Von Ahn: Humans wasted 500,000 hours daily solving 200 million CAPTCHAs
“About two hundred million times a day somebody types a capture. And that's when you get two hundred million times a day times 10 seconds. So humanity as a whole is wasting about 500,000 hours a day typing these captchas.”
Luis von Ahn Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 20:48 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
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