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Traditional captchas have been easier for computers than humans for a while. I imagine these “pick all matching” captchas aren’t far behind.
The main reason to do captchas nowadays is to keep the door closed. Of course they do not deter more expert-ish people, but opportunity "hackers" aka script kiddies. If you're not using captchas you're just inviting them to run a script on your site. Big sites use captchas, there's no reason for the fediverse to not use captchas. We don't need to be "special" in regards to security.
That's why I always liked the captcha that Genshin had on login, just sliding the puzzle piece onto the correct part of the picture. Very easy for a human, has the basest of security against lazy bots.
Which is funny because these captchas are designed to train an AI, like self-driving cars. So the AI is now training itself, ready for a big divergence.