[FrenchDevRemote]

There are multiple projects built to reverse engineer their API to avoid paying the API rates(it still makes economical sense to buy a subscription for this), it was obvious that they would have to increase their bot protections at some point.

Regular captchas are easily solvable by multimodal LLMs, we're reaching a point where what's hard for software to solve is also hard for humans.

At some point they'll probably have to charge by usage instead of a flat subscription.

[josho]

I would have thought that rate limiting would be an easier solution to the problem of using chatgpt as an api.

[FrenchDevRemote]

It was rate limited since the start, the bots are respecting the rate limits, that does not mean they stop being a burden, they just create more of them.