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by ComputerGuru 636 days ago
Fyi OpenAI challenge isn’t there to protect against hackers trying to steal/brute-force logins in this case but rather trying to stop bots from using all-you-can-eat (albeit rate limited) plans from supplanting their more expensive api offerings.
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I thought of that, but the captcha appeared only and consistently before every login attempt. Never while interacting with the bot, so I'm not being rate limited

Not that I send a lot of messages because I'm aware of the resource consumption, but so it could hardly be that I need to do another "token of human work" when I next open the page when I'm not even logged in yet