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I wonder who is going to train Google's "AI" now, if this becomes mainstream?

Google already started charging for recpatcha for big sites.

This is one of the reasons Cloudflare jumped to hcaptcha

If you read the very article you linked, hCaptcha did the exact same - So they cut a deal.

So they

a.) Moved from a no-click CAPTCHA solution to one that requires you to click images.

b.) Offered a paid solution so you can have your no-click solution back.

Introduce a problem and then introduce a paid-for solution to fix the problem - That's just scummy business practice.