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> I am baffled by this. Not only, because I use the online website (= I am not using the API, like in a terminal)

Why would this baffle you? API's are typically accessed programmatically, so there would be no human to solve the captchas.

> I am logged in and a paying customer. Why am I getting asked if I am human?

To prove that it's a Human accessing the interface and not a robot.

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Well, because I'm paying. I get that free tiers need some kind of "rate limiting" (because essentially this is that, as well). So even if I am a bot: I payed for the service.

Apart from that: The experience is shitty. Do not shove Captchas in my face.

Have you tried asking ChatGPT why ChatGPT uses Captchas.

I did and the answer is totally reasonable.

A headless browser based bot(s) is still going to be rate limited because the limits apply to the entire paid account, so even if it was against their TOS I'm not really sure how badly it could be abused since you're still throttled to ~50 messages every three or four hours.

Maybe they still consider that to be too much traffic though as a continuously running bot is maxing out the potential usage of the account.

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