Originally Posted by martindcx1e

here's a maybe stupid question...why do the image verifications on various sites have to be so jumbled and hard to read? a bot can't really decipher an image anyways right so what's the point?

Originally Posted by PC Magazine

RMG's software—and others like it—can apparently not only defeat CAPTCHA but actually perform the process faster than most people can. (That's quite a trick, since it means fixing the text so it's readable, OCR-ing it, and then typing it into the provided field). So the safeguard that was supposed to prove we're human is now being done by a nonhuman at superhuman speeds. Ah, the irony.