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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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From the screenshot in the article, the bot is bypassing Cloudflare's Turnstile which is not just tracking hits.
I work in bot detection. You and anyone else reading this should understand that, behind the scenes, proof-of-work, proof-of-space, and other tests are being run to verify if the device is what it says it is. Typically, a bot is run with a tool like Playwright or Puppeteer. These frameworks are detectable with the right tests. Bots will also attempt to spoof another device's fingerprints to blend in. These changes are also detectable if you know what to test for.
We implement tools like Turnstile and other CAPTCHAless CAPTCHA because bots are pretty good at passing CAPTCHA while humans, rightfully, hate verifying they they're human. Humans also struggle at passing CAPTCHA.
The general population has zero idea the massive volume of bot traffic that is being generated right now. These tools are implemented for a reason. So the fact that a bot just breezes past this test is a problem for us all.
Definitely not "same shit different pile", friend.
Thanks for the write up, but I was blocked from logging in on a cloudflare website because I opened too many windows once and their tracking cookie flagged that browser as a bot.
Meanwhile the bot I built to track mod updates to my modlist for Rimworld and Mw5 on nexus? Never ran into any issues.
So when I refer to Cloudflare's bot detection as shit, that is a highly personal and professional opinion.
Cloudflare is one of many contributing factors to how annoying the internet is now.
I get it. I really do. Having seen both the sheer volume of bot traffic and the annoyance of CAPTCHA, it's hard for me to be on one side here. I wish the general public could see the volume of bot traffic we're all contending with but I also get the the internet just gets shitier and shitier.