I cannot pass (AI-Generated?) Epic hCaptcha anymore

I cannot login to my Epic Games account anymore. I'm being asked to solve an hCaptcha which is just too difficult. Every time there's at least one ambiguous image - I tried three times, now I fear they could lock my account.

In the linked image - the middle-center and top-center images are clearly people playing football. What about the top-right? There appears to be a football sphere, but should this be considered "playing" with this kind of framing? The "non football" category is very clear, because there're different sports.

I had another issue with another hCaptcha asking me about "select a robot", but it was very hard to understand what was a robot. There was a clear category of "non robots", though, and selecting all images not in that category wasn't enough to pass the captcha.

So:

1) A "critical" image seems to exist in all captchas which is very ambiguous.

2) Those images seem to be generated by some diffusion model. So, if the model gets the representation wrong... your captcha is unsolvable?!?

For context: This is my personal Epic Games account. I don't use it a lot, but I'm logged in on a single workstation, I never share it, it wasn't bought somewhere, and I have it since quite a few years.

Captchas are getting out of hand. It's a way for bad people to try and filter bots, but based on the absurdity levels that they're going to with them they're not working.

Really if I could fire all the ignorant CTOs the world would be a better place. So much shit is shoveled out and usually comes as a management directive because they need to check an auditor box somewhere. No actual thought to if the control is effective or not.

I am impressed that it uses pictures of proper football.