Arguably it was always a cat and mouse game, but now it's more like an arms race, where ultimately in the end of the race either the spammers will win or lose,

Arguably it was always a cat and mouse game, but now it's more like an arms race, where ultimately in the end of the race either the spammers will win or lose, but not anything in the middle. Considering the current situation with CAPTCHAs, I feel pretty uneasy. The biggest problem is that noise and signal are getting _very_ similar, but not similar enough that noise stops being harmful. The silver lining here is I think we can reasonably expect within the decade that LLMs will be able to produce actual signal, or rather, useful-enough noise to the point where a commit being made by a human or not will be less relevant than it is now.