ChatGPT successfully clicks through and passes 'I am not a robot' verification test

It’s happened: ChatGPT has successfully clicked through and passed the Cloudflare ‘I am not a robot’ verification test.

The irony is palpable right now, as OpenAI’s new feature, ChatGPT Agent, which lets AI take the wheel while you’re browsing online, has successfully tricked the internet into thinking it is not, in fact, a bot.

Users can watch the AI go about its business and complete different tasks in the ChatGPT interface, but the discovery it can now bypass a bot catcher is notable.

So, what exactly does this mean?

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ChatGPT says ‘I am not a robot’ in a verification test

We all know the little Cloudflare verification test where you have to click a checkbox to confirm you are not a robot, or the even more involved ones, where you spend ages trying to work out if one pixel is in a certain picture box.

Turns out, though, that the robots also know about the ‘I am not a robot’ verification tests, and the tech might not be as robust or as good at stopping bots in their tracks as we thought they were.

A Reddit user by the name u/logkn posted their experience using OpenAI’s newest ChatGPT feature, the ChatGPT Agent, where the AI takes the wheel and goes about it’s business on the internet while the user watches.

A dialogue box popped up in the process of going onto a website where the agent told u/logkn ‘now I’ll click the ‘Verify you are human’ checkbox […] This step is necessary to prove I am not a bot’.

Bots are getting smarter

The ease with which the AI agent passed the CAPTCHA test which stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, shows that bots are getting smarter.

The rise in increasingly confusing CAPTCHA puzzles might be explained by the fact that bots can now simply click a box and verify they’re not robots.

The verification tests were never made to completely stop a bot in its tracks, but certainly to slow them down, but as long as there are CAPTCHA tests, there’ll be robots to beat them.

One commenter on the Reddit post wrote, however, “Your agent did way better than mine; mine couldn’t figure out how to get to the Stop and Shop website.”

Maybe some AI agents are smarter than others?

Either way, security it going to have to evolve quickly if it wants to stay ahead of the bots.

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