Current CAPTCHAs are ineffective against advanced AI that can mimic humans.
Evidence
The actual hard problem about this proof of humanity is uniqueness. With CAPTCHAs you could just sit down and solve one CAPTCHA after another. You could verify account after account after account. You could be a Chinese click farm that does that, and then you could give these accounts to AIs. So something like CAPTCHAs doesn’t actually solve the problem at all. It’s a first-line defense against bots that cannot enter my website and watch my ads. CAPTCHAs as a whole won’t work for much longer because any reasonably smart AI is as good as you and me to spot the traffic lights. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 1177
Categorization
- SEED: This highlights the vulnerabilities of current verification methods and suggests a shift in secure identification.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 1177