Bots can now solve CAPTCHAs better than humans

Of course they can! Humans have been training them on this task for 20 years.

am I gonna need an AI to solve captchas now?

cause they've gotten so patently stupidly ridiculous that I cant even solve them as a somewhat barely functional biological intelligence.

If some sites only need me to click the one checkbox to prove I am a human, why aren't ALL sites using this method?!

So we just invert the logic now, right?
Make the captcha impossibly hard to get right for humans but doable for bots, and let people in if they fail the test.

<click the traffic lights>

me: clicks all the traffic lights

<wrong!>

Bro, everytime I get the select all the 'x' tiles (motorcycle, bicycle, bus, etc) one I never know if it means "all" of them, like even ones with just a little bit on the tile. Does it want the tires, too? It's bullshit. Never seems to be correct, what I select.

Are you a robot?
<fails captcha>
I guess not

I haven't been able to solve CAPTHCAs in years.

Ditching CAPTCHA systems because they don't work any more is kind of obvious. I'm more interested on what to replace them with; as in, what to use to prevent access of bots to a given resource and/or functionality.

In some cases we could use human connections to do that for us; that's basically what db0's Fediseer does, by creating a chain of groups of users (instances) guaranteeing each other.

Hey, failing at being a human being while trying to highlight where the bicycle starts and end on the picture is my job! You won't take that away from me, you fucking robot!

How the hell am I supposed to know which parts of that picture contain bicycles?

So what would be a good solution to this? What is something simple that bots are bad at but humans are good at it?

There are two Brewster Rockit strips that are applicable here.

https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2021/06/25

https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2024/05/26

Eyyyyy we’re fucked 🙃