CAPTCHAs are now so hard humans can't solve them, but AI models can
hugobowne · x · 2026-10-26
Data scientist Hugo Bowne-Anderson jokes that today's CAPTCHAs are so difficult he can't solve them himself, while models like Astra and Opus pass with ease — "we're cooked." Behind the joke is a real inversion: anti-bot challenges are now screening humans rather than machines.
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