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Why CAPTCHA Exists, Why It Keeps Getting Worse, and Why It May Soon Disappear

Ten years ago, proving you were human online meant clicking a simple checkbox. Today, you are forced to identify bicycles, traffic lights, crosswalks, buses, and motorcycles across multiple panning image grids-only to be told your submission was ambiguous and you must try again. The reason for this escalation isn’t that CAPTCHA systems became poorly designed. It’s that bots became dramatically…