Computers are getting better than human at solving these challenges. So recaptcha v4 might end up being a micropayment system since humans still have more money than bots.

Several decades of experience suggests micropayments ain’t it.

>humans still have more money than bots

Simultaneously humans can be less likely to want to pay than bots which can skew the bot to human ratio.

In my opinion next gen captcha should be asking user to prove that he's human.

For example ask him to upload his video with his ID. This video will be verified by another human operator.

In the end, user will be given some kind of identifier. He should present that identifier to anyone asking if he's a robot.

Of course that kind of verification will be paid. So you're paying $100 to get a verified identifier and then you keep that identifier (probably in the form of private key with signed public key).

There will be multiple certificate authorities who will issue those certificates to people. Rest of software companies will trust those authorities.

You need to renew that certificate every year.

If someone spotted your certificate being used in a nefarious schemes, your certificate will be revoked and you'll need to pay $5000 fine next time you'll ask for new certificate.

If you don't possess certificate, you're not qualified to be a human.

But then you're imposing an expensive yearly tax on people to use basic services. Very poor people use the internet too!

And thus poor people became unable to access the internet

>"There is no way this doesn’t get abused, including, probably by the Company making it."

How would the company making it abuse this? I feel like maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Sell bulk captcha solving to bad actors.

The extension probably has a hidden limit of 50 solves a day or something

Interesting. Although I imagine if that was their ultimate goal they wouldn't have bothered with the free consumer extension no?

Gotta stay on top. Free training data.

For pay captcha solvers have existed forever (e.g. 2captcha.com) and the world hasnt ended yet. I doubt this will change that much.

Maybe the solution is to look for problems where human's imperfections are identifiable

If a machine can identify it, a machine can fake it.

Maybe given a large enough input, but do you want to spend 10 minutes solving a captcha?

abused? it’s a captcha solver. I’d argue abuse (from the perspective of the target website/app) is the primary business case.