The story, "Kittens could solve spam," posted Friday, did not include background about other similar projects that have been
developed. The story has been updated on the wire and includes the following three paragraphs as paragraphs seven, eight and
nine:
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Microsoft Research is offering a beta service of a photo recognition technology for free to Web site hosters. The service,
called Asirra, receives animal photos from Petfinder.com and in exchange includes an "adopt me" button that takes visitors to a page where
they can consider adopting the animal.
The Asirra project was "inspired," according to its Web page, by HotCaptcha, a similar idea that asks users to identify the attractive people in a group of photos. Asirra developers found that idea
potentially offensive and subjective so tweaked it to use animal photos instead.
Another project, KittenAuth, presents photos to users and asks them to choose the ones that are kittens. Carnegie Mellon University's The Captcha Project also uses photo recognition to distinguish between humans and computer programs.
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