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Arguably, it's still relevant. It took about 5 years for suitable image recognition apis to come out.

Although Flickr tried to get it done in about a month: http://code.flickr.net/2014/10/20/introducing-flickr-park-or...



I could have done it in a weekend with Mechanical Turk.


When the API becomes common practice the xkcd is no longer relevant, yet it was correct (at time of writing). Unless educating on the difficulties of the past of course, then it would be relevant.




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