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Google's security AI is now so smart it doesn't need to ask if you're "not a robot"
Google’s security AI has become so smart, it can now tell whether you’re a human or a robot without asking you to check a box or solve annoying puzzles… most of the time, anyway. We’ve all come across CAPTCHAs, those challenges that ask you to type in the characters you see in scrambled images (the a acryonym means Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). As bots and spammers became more sophisticated, it seemed CAPTCHA’s were getting harder and harder for even regular old humans to solve.
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I wouldn't say it causes more problems than it solves. It inconveniences a relatively small number of people (developers) while eliminating an annoyance for millions of users.
The service ultimately exists to cater to users, not to developers who want to automate something on top of an interface primarily meant for users.
Also, it's not like there's no way for a developer to figure out if something can be automated without a captcha to guide them. The first time they try to do it, they'll run into an error that tells them they can't, and that'll be that.