Both you and @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com are correct. Google bought reCAPTCHA in 2012.
Here’s an article about it from 2018.
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Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it
And another from 2019! Captchas got harder for us because the AI had learned from our training.
Is it finally the year of Linux?
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