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Ditching CAPTCHA systems because they don't work any more is kind of obvious. I'm more interested on what to replace them with; as in, what to use to prevent access of bots to a given resource and/or functionality.
In some cases we could use human connections to do that for us; that's basically what db0's Fediseer does, by creating a chain of groups of users (instances) guaranteeing each other.
Yeah kind of idiotic that the video kept saying that captchas are useless -- they're still preventing basic bots from filling forms. If you took them away, fraudsters wouldn't have to pay humans to solve them or use fancy bots any more, so bot traffic would increase
For the current state of the things I agree with you. In the future it's another can of worms - the barrier of entry of those fancy bots will likely get lower over time, so I expect us to see more fraudsters/spammers/advertisers using them.