programs outperform humans in every CAPTCHA style, such as pattern recognition and character detection.
They checked the number of famous websites using CAPTCHAS and found 120 out of 200 do. Then, they asked 1,400 with varying tech expertise to complete 14,000 CAPTCHAs. Unfortunately, technologies to “defeat or bypass CAPTCHAS” have also significantly improved. ChatGPT is the most popular example of this phenomenon.That program is barely a year old, but people worldwide have adopted it for daily tasks. More importantly, it fooled a person into solving a CAPTCHA on its behalf in early 2023.Co-author Andrew Searles explained to the science news website New Scientist its implications.