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Honestly, I'm not mad if AI fully defeats captchas to the point they go away. They almost always fail to be usable via accessibility tools. These things might block some automated systems, but they also block people with disabilities.
What will you replace them with? They won't go away, they will just get harder
When I ran a public installation of web forum software (more than a decade ago), I got spambot registrations, then I think I just set up a captcha where users had to answer some really simple question; this kept the spambots away.
That worked because you were not personally targeted. Someone could defeat this system if they wanted to
Yeah, it's about barrier to entry. Any question will bypass dumb automation, even hard captcha is defeated by a Task Rabbit or Fiverr job to make 10 accounts and post some s#!t
Probably at some point in the future, the automation tools they're using will support throwing in a GPT API token. But AI calls aren't free so maybe we'll squeak by.
There's also the real possibility that if somebody is actually using AI the bot text will be good enough that nobody will know for certain it's a bot.