Prove You’re Human, Stupid

The very companies building the most advanced AIs are also investing heavily in mechanisms—captchas—designed to prevent machines from impersonating humans.

Every day, we (humans) increasingly struggle to prove we’re human—while machines have no trouble solving these annoying puzzles. We’ve reached a point where deciphering distorted text, “finding the penguin,” or identifying blurry images of bicycles is more challenging for a human than for a multimodal model like GPT-4 or Gemini.

And the more intelligent machines become, the more difficult it will be for humans to prove they are human. This arm race is absurd, and cannot go forever.