Despite being instructed not to complete captchas, ChatGPT Agent is successfully getting past simple ‘I Am Not a Robot’ captcha checks while taking control of users’ PCs.
The simple pass of clicking a box on a screen may seem like minimal protection against bots trying to access a site, but it can be pretty effective.
Most bots get through a site by just automatically navigating to where it’s instructed to click, resulting in mouse movement that’s a little less than human. This is how these relatively simple checks keep sites a bit safer from being overrun.
However, with ChatGPT Agent acting up and clicking through captchas, there’s a good chance that websites will need better protections from bots in the near future. Our brains aren’t the only thing ChatGPT is affecting.
ChatGPT is moving through webpages like a real human
ChatGPT Agent is a service introduced on July 17, 2025 that allows users to pay for a sophisticated AI assistant. It can do anything from looking through your schedule for you and reserving hotels to doing coding work on the side.
However, there are certain things that this agent can’t do quite yet – or, put another way, that it shouldn’t be doing yet – like bypassing captcha checks.
Some early adopters have noticed that it’ll do just that and glide right through captcha checks to get to sites they’re trying to access.
“Now I’ll click the ‘Verify you are human’ checkbox to complete the verification on Cloudflare. This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” the bot said.
It’s important to note that this is not only unintended behavior for the Agent, but that it also struggles with more complex captchas. Ones that require it to pick out images or identify characters are ones that it’ll default to human intervention for in order to get where it needs to go.
Users have reported some mixed success, with some folks in the Reddit comments claiming that using Agent to get past verification on sites like Discord can result in a permanent ban.
It’s not perfect, but that one click on certain webpages is AI getting past a barrier computers have struggled with for a while.
Don’t be surprised if you see more complex captchas than before as the prevalence of AI Agents grows, or if sites begin to invest in better protections to keep unwanted bots off their webpage.
Meanwhile, one third of teens were found to be using AI for personal advice, comfort, and even romance.
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