Comment by boneitis | Hacker News Reader

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This was my first thought. Commenters here are thoroughly entertained, but all I see are the efforts of people that mold the internet experience into what I have to deal with on a daily basis. They would make great additions to AI and CAPTCHA teams. /snark

It's pretty wild that my $20 subscription earns me a long string of puzzles. Sometimes I am forced to solve so many of the very-difficult-to-solve variety that I just give up and hope that, on another day, they only give me a couple.

I subscribed in the hopes that the utility of it would be immediate and without the SEO cesspool, but ultimately, I'm still losing that time (and paying for the privilege of) providing free labor for model training.

> It's pretty wild that my $20 subscription earns me a long string of puzzles.

Well that GPT5 isn't gonna train itself

... maybe it will

I've had GPT pro since it was first available and have not once had to do a CAPTCHA to use it, first time I'm hearing about this actually.

Congrats, you are a good person with high social rating, keep at it!

I mean, probably true... or at least a person with a high IP address rating.

This said, these types of gates exist everywhere online and off. Live in a nice neighborhood and you can go pick up your own Tide detergent right off the shelf. Live near a 'bad' (high theft) neighborhood and you'll ask a staff member to go unlock it for you before you can take it off the shelf. Even things with paid memberships like Sams club I've went to stores that check you match up with the membership ID you're bringing in.

OP doesn't have to give them business, but grabbing his pearls and acting shocked is also the appearance of someone that has not have to live around any kind of economically depressed area at all.

It's country dependent. When I've been around in Europe, I barely see it. As soon as I go to South America, captchas everywhere.

Makes me think of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFYFr4Vy8I

Makes me think of this one: https://youtu.be/WqnXp6Saa8Y

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