You'd be surprised, or perhaps horrified, by how cheap (self-proclaimed) human-based captcha solving services are.
If you just search for "captcha solving service" the first few results that come up offer 1000 solves of text-based captchas for <= $1 USD, (puzzle / JS browser challenge captchas are charged much higher).
Whether these are actually human based, or just impressive OCR services, it seems like they are still much more cost effective than GPT-4 is for now.
If you just search for "captcha solving service" the first few results that come up offer 1000 solves of text-based captchas for <= $1 USD, (puzzle / JS browser challenge captchas are charged much higher).
Whether these are actually human based, or just impressive OCR services, it seems like they are still much more cost effective than GPT-4 is for now.