This is especially ironic given that captchas were pretty much defeated 10-15 years ago, thoroughly defeated in the last 2-3 years, and are now exclusively deployed by people who (a) haven't been paying attention and (b) like to pretend that they still work. Oh, citation needed? Okay, here are a few. Let's start in 2008: Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080415-gone-in-60-seconds-spambot-cra... Cheap CAPTCHA Solving Changes the Security Game https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/cheap-captcha-solving-changes-secu... and 2011: Stanford researchers outsmart captcha codes http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-stanford-outsmart-captcha-codes.html and 2012: How a trio of hackers brought Google's reCAPTCHA to its knees | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/google-recaptcha-brought-to-its-knee... Troy Hunt: Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/01/breaking-captcha-with-automated-humans.html and 2014: Snapchat account registration CAPTCHA defeated https://techienews.co.uk/snapchat-account-registration-captcha-defeated/ and 2017: Artificial Intelligence Beats CAPTCHA - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence-beats-captcha unCAPTCHA Breaks 450 ReCAPTCHAs in Under 6 Seconds https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/uncaptcha-breaks-450-recapt... and 2023: AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-185073435... [2307.12108] An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108 and 2024: AI researchers demonstrate 100% success rate in bypassing online CAPTCHAs https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-resear... [2409.08831] Breaking reCAPTCHAv2</a> https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08831 ---rsk