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CAPTCHAs: The struggle to tell real humans from fake. (theconversation.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My understanding is that captchas were never supposed to be impenetrable, just difficult enough that to have bots (or mechanical turks) solve them at scale is expensive enough to deter that kind of automation. It's probably getting a lot easier for a computer to solve nowadays though.