Why CAPTCHA and Traditional Verification Methods Are Failing

Our defenses against automated threats that we have constructed to ensure that human-facing systems do not receive them are being systematically bypassed, not by some exotic exploit, but with the same machine learning technology with which we create products. This is the way the failure occurred and the next step. In 2023, a security researcher at a large university released a paper showing that a fine-tuned vision transformer model, when tasked with the reCAPTCHA v2 image challenges, could solv