The Good Tech Companies - AI CAPTCHA Fails Are the Internet’s New Comedy Show!

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-captcha-fails-are-the-internets-new-comedy-show. Let's take a look at some AI CAPTCHA fails and explore a real tool for CAPTCHA automation. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #ai, #web-scraping, #captcha-solver, #anti-ai-captchas, #bright-data, #ai-captcha-fails, #good-company, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @brightdata. Learn more about this writer by checking @brightdata's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. AI struggles with CAPTCHAs, leading to hilarious fails despite its advanced capabilities. CAPTCHAs, designed to block bots, often stump AI, as seen in viral videos. While AI can solve simple text-based ones, it falters with image-based puzzles. For efficient CAPTCHA solving, tools like Bright Data’s CAPTCHA Solver offer a reliable solution.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. AI Captcha Fails are the internet's new comedy show, by Bright Data. AI Captcha Fails are quickly becoming the internet's latest comedy sensation tears of joy. Despite how advanced artificial intelligence has become, it still hilariously stumbles when faced with the simplest challenges, captchas. Whether it's confusing a bike for a painted image or struggling to decode blurry text, watching AI fail at these puzzles is pure entertainment grin clapperboard. Ready to jump into the absurdity? Let's check out some of the funniest

A I C A P T C H A fails. Yuck Party Popper AI vs CAPTCHAs, an introduction. As you probably know, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell computers and humans apart. Basically, CAPTCHAs are challenges that are easy for humans but difficult for automated bots to solve. In most cases, they're used as anti-bot or anti-scraping measures. Their goal? Stop spam, block automated attacks, and lately, keep AI-powered automation in check. Stop sign now, think of them like this. CAPTCHAs are the web's secret handshake. Except instead of a slick move, you're stuck clicking on blurry crosswalks and praying you didn't miss one. Handshake children crossing all cool and easy to grasp, but to truly understand

the AI versus CAPTCHA battle crossed swords, we need to talk about how AI is taking over, especially with tools like OpenEyes Operator, which can automate web interactions on your behalf. HTTPS colon slash slash www. YouTube, com, watch, v equals c s e 77 w a d d l g and embeddable equals true also, if you've ever built a web scraping bot and hit a captcha roadblock, you've probably thought, why not let AI handle it? Just pass the challenge tone AI and let it tell me where to click. Genius, after all, AI can do everything, right? Or, can it? Thinking face let's find out, a collection of AI captcha fails. One of the unwritten rules of the internet? If something can be memmed, it will be memmed. And AI, despite being mind-blowingly powerful exploding head, is no exception. Lately, a hilarious trend has taken over Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and even YouTube.

AI agents trying, and failing miserably rolling on the floor laughing, to solve CAPTCHAs. Spoiler alert, it doesn't end well. In in this section we're diving into the most epic ai captcha fails grab some popcorn and get ready to laugh popcorn tears of joy open ai operator vs recaptcha this video has already reached cult status racking up over 50k views on x and dozens of retweets https colon slash slash.kevinruze.status.1.882.885.941.033.095.271.s="09 and embeddable="truease.kevinruze. The author of the post, put it, watching OpenAI's operator struggle with CAPTCHAs is downright hypnotic, and honestly, pretty hilarious, open mouth smile. Warning pro tip. Find out more in our story, OpenAI's operator vs CAPTCHAs. Who's winning? The same tweet even sparked a Reddit thread on our bard, gaining over 350 upvotes. Because let's be real, AI is just as fascinating when it fails as when it succeeds. It's like watching a baby try to solve a puzzle meant for adults. Baby bottle puzzle piece

Copilot VS buses give Copilot a simple captcha where it just needs to identify images containing a bus. Easy, right? A no-brainer for humans. But for AI? Apparently not. In this case, Copilot didn't even try. No analysis, no attempt, just straight UP gave up. Talk about lazy. Tears of joy Chad GPT vs Tricky Captcha try this fun experiment. Feed Chad GPT the following Tricky Captcha and ask it dissolve it. The catch? The bicycle isn't an actual bike, it's just a painted symbol on the road. Bike paint palette here's the kind of response you'll likely get. Which means you'd have to click the highlighted squares below.

So, according to AI logic, this is what a bike looks like. Face with raised eyebrow uh, yeah, that's definitely not a bike. But hey, nice try, I. Tongue out AI vs blurred text captcha ASOK. AI struggles with image-based captchas, but what about text-based ones? Those should be a walk in the park, right? Pedestrian take this captcha with some blurred text, for example. Let's put AI to the test, starting with Chad GPT. Maybe it can decipher this test, and, nope. No good gesture not only did it fail, but it didn't even respond, just, nope. No good gesture not only did it fail,

but it didn't even respond, just threw an error like Yitrash quit. Okay, maybe that was a fluke. Time to give Gemini a shot, well, technically correct, but also completely useless. Yes, Gemini, the text is blurred. That's kind of the whole point. Man facepalming alright, last chance.'s see what co-pilot can do and another ai captcha fail three strikes ai's out open mouth smile extra robot versus i'm not a robot captcha to wrap up this collection of ai captcha fails revisit the legendary viral video with over 30 million views yep 30 million where an actual robot arm beats the i'm not a robot captcha https colon slash slash www youtube com watch v equals fsf7 nki8 ui and embeddable equals truso it turns out

robots can beat captchas all you need is a robotic arm and some serious programming skills. Robot biceps is AI really that bad at solving captures? TLDR. Well, yes and no. As you might have noticed, this blog post takes a bit of a comedic spin, showcasing the hilarious times AI completely flopped at captures. But that doesn't mean AI fails all captures, especially the text-based ones, like this one. In reality, AI can solve some captures, especially the simpler, text-based ones like this one in reality i can solve some captchas especially the simpler text-based ones at the same time that's exactly why captchas are evolving to become more sophisticated to the point where even we humans sometimes struggle to solve them relax you're not a robot robot cross mark take this new generation puzzle-based captcha for example

if i can't even handle basic image-based captchas, for example. If AI can't even handle basic image-based captchas, do you really think it can crack a more complex puzzle-based one like this? You know the answer, here's the point, though, captchas are designed specifically to stop bots, so, it's no surprise that AI struggles with them. After all, if AI could easily solve captchas, do you think platforms like Chad GPT would bother with them? If you've ever logged into Chad GPT. And chances are, you have.

You've probably seen this CAPTCHA. Yeah. Even OpenAI raised the white flag when it comes to CAPTCHA control. Cold sweat smile thus, is it actually possible to automate CAPTCHA solving? Yes. But you need a completely different solution for that, which you're about to discover. Magnifying Glass the real solution to automated CAPTCHA solving. AI isn't the best tool for solving CAPTCHAs, so what's the solution? A dedicated CAPTCHA solving

tool, like Bright Data's CAPTCHA Solver, which handles a wide range of CAPTCHA types, including reCAPTCHA, HCAPTCHA, PerimeterX, SimpleCAPTCHA, FunCAPTCHA, CloudFlareCAPTCHA and TurnStyle, OZWAFCAPTCHA, G-TestCAPTCHA, KeyCAPTCHA, PuzzleCAPTCHA, YandexCAPTCHA, ImageCAPTCHA, TextCAPTCHA, and more. Performs user emulation and fingerprint management to bypass most CAPTCHAs Integrates with a proxy network counting over 100 MIPs and including dedicated CAPTCHA proxies Below's how it works, in case you're wondering, as you can see, CAPTCHA Solver is part of all Bright Data's scraping solutions, including WebUnlocker Try it and forget about AI CAPTCHA fails Just call Bright Data's Web Unlocker API endpoint,

pass the URL of your target page, and you'll get an unblocked HTML document in return. What you do with that page, whether you automate actions with a headless browser or scrape data from it, is up to you. https colon slash slash www, youtube, com, watch, v equals n 3dkhwqswea and embeddable equals truso, should we keep forcing AI to solve CAPTCHAs, or just use a tool that actually works? The choice is clear, CAPTCHA solver FTW. Trophy final thoughts, AI is here to revolutionize our world, but it still can't replace humans, especially when it comes to automating CAPTCHA solving. While AI Sunday ni oblige impressive, it still struggles with CAPTCHAs, often producing

hilariously bad results. The issue isn't that AI can't solve CAPTCHAs. For that task, you need the right tool. And that tool is not AI. The real solution? CAPTCHA solver. Join us on our mission to democratize the web and make it accessible for everyone, everywhere, even through automated scripts. Until next time, keep exploring the internet freely and without captchas. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by Artificial Intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.