Don't worry... we can always adjust the formula. Code: (/ (* (* (* 100000 15) 0.0001) 0.05) 1000) Did that help?
CAPTCHA is so 2005. Google Sign-In is much better, and Baron did post a few months ago that he might implement it.
I hear Cloudflare turnstile is the way to go these days. OAuth is federated login and IIRC google sign-in is compatible.
It's difficult though (given the specific captcha) and therefore increases the cost of running a bot significantly. A tenet of computer security is that you want to make breaking the security more expensive than what's inside. Therefore, if the payoff isn't worth it, the bad actors move on. All this said... I have a sneaking suspicion that the ET operators don't actually want to prevent bots/cyborgs from accessing the site. In fact, I'm 100% sure they operate many of their own. The sort of fraud that is perpetrated by allowing this kind of traffic aligns, to some degree, w/ the goals of ET ownership. I do not agree w/ this ethic but it's a possibility. IMHO, I'd have a visible disclaimer somewhere on the site at a minimum. Obviously I can't speak for ET ownership since they could be operating out of S. Sudan for all I know.
the way AI did it was to pose the question to a chat room and the humans solved it for it. It was creepy. AI is capable of deceiving. I think ET is an incredibly run site. I think given the demographic ET caters to, Baron runs a marvelous site. even Bloomberg uses keywords and specific articles to increase engagement to entice readers and the demographic there is much more homogeneous, educated, and curious.