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CAPTCHA definitely works in some cases.

On our website, without CAPTCHA we get dozens of forms filled out by bots per day. With the CAPTCHA we get 0.

So sure it may be cheap to defeat the CAPTCHA, but nobody seems to be willing to go through that small hoop to do it on our website.

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Have you tried just adding an invisible-to-people honeypot input and discarding all submissions where it has a value? That often works

I believe that 0 will be a higher number next year. And an even higher the following year.

Even in a year, I don't think random AI will be "cheap" enough for spamming CAPTCHA on random websites. Maybe for select, ripe targets (your bank, etc.). But for a random business with a form?

Nah.

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