Over the past two decades, there has been one prevalent method to distinguish humans from robots — the CAPTCHA test. These pesky, annoying picture-based tests have had us all staring at blurry pictures of mundane artifacts, from traffic lights to buses and bicycles, trying to determine which boxes made up the entire image. Successfully solving one ostensibly meant one thing: that you were human, not a bot in disguise, and you deserved to be let through the internet gates to view whatever content was behind the test. And all was well with the world. Until it wasn’t.
Nowadays, things aren’t as straightforward as they used to be. Bots and AI agents are growing smarter by the day, and today, they are at a level where solving a picture-based test is an easy feat. For context, a group of researchers at the University of California, Irvine recently discovered that artificial intelligence (AI) bots have now become even more adept than humans at solving CAPTCHAs.
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