Others felt the incident highlighted the risks of websites using the “I’m not a robot” checkbox in lieu of the more complicated CAPTCHA test.

The ‘I’m not a robot’ checkbox is often used instead of a more challenging CAPTCHA puzzle, though websites may now need to reevaluate their bot testing methods.

This is what makes the use of AI in this specific case interesting. It's not just that the bot passed whatever verification Cloudflare uses, but that it did so in service of a different action.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test "This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent was seen clicking its way through a test meant to distinguish between human and machine.