It's not even that paranoid. Google has literally been doing it for a while. It's not like they gave us all those photos of traffic lights because bots can't do

It's not even that paranoid. Google has literally been doing it for a while. It's not like they gave us all those photos of traffic lights because bots can't do it. OpenAI farmed pretty much all the quality text out there for GPT-4. They did GPT-4o built natively for multimodal, likely because they ran out of text and need to farm videos & audio. Captcha data is pretty valuable too if only to beat captchas.