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Sometimes creativity is the only thing holding people back from exploiting the natural insects of the web.

Case in point, ever wonder why those captchas include street addresses or 'pick the shape with a hole in it?' Spoiler: you're building training data and validating training data.

How else can we silently retrieve training data?



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