Uh? The outcome is not “captchas are gone and all our services remain good.”
If we don’t have some way to prevent it, services will be increasingly populated by sophisticated bots either selling stuff, attempting security breaches, or pushing political agendas.
The current internet culture seems quite happy to slap captchas all over the place. When they first rolled out, captchas were predominantly a barrier for "write access" (e.g. make an account, complete a sale, write a comment). But companies like Cloudflare have been putting captchas everywhere for mere read access.
Because Captchas are designed to be easy for ("normal") people but hard for machines, they often disallow disabled users. I'm a ("mostly normal") 35 year old, but I _really_ struggle with captchas. I despise when Cloudflare tosses a captcha challenge before loading a page, as I'll need to spend 3-5 minutes of effort to figure out which tiny pictures have a stoplight, motorcycle, or crosswalk.
Will someone come up with a less restrictive anti-bot solution? I hope so. But even if not, I'm not sure it matters. According to comments in this thread (and elsewhere on the internet about the HBO Max captcha), many of these captchas are _already_ terrible at excluding robots. We're using captchas to exclude low-sophistication robots and disabled users. Seems wrong.
Because current captchas fail to stop 100% of bots and 0% of humans… it’s “not a bad thing” to move closer to captchas stopping 0% of bots and 100% of humans…?
Are you imagining this would spur people to create a different, bot-free (how?) and disabled-human friendly Internet?
No idea. I'm not offering solutions, merely complaints that the current approach of "answer a question that is hard for computers and easy for humans" removes disabled people from many places on the internet.
If we don’t have some way to prevent it, services will be increasingly populated by sophisticated bots either selling stuff, attempting security breaches, or pushing political agendas.
That’s a bad thing!