The Official CAPTCHA Site →

I’m working on a project that needs a CAPTCHA so I went to look at reCAPTCHA. Problem is, they seem to be a little confused about a CAPTCHA’s purpose:

CAPTCHA tests are based on open problems in artificial intelligence (AI): decoding images of distorted text, for instance, is well beyond the capabilities of modern computers. Therefore, CAPTCHAs also offer well-defined challenges for the AI community, and induce security researchers, as well as otherwise malicious programmers, to work on advancing the field of AI. CAPTCHAs are thus a win-win situation: either a CAPTCHA is not broken and there is a way to differentiate humans from computers, or the CAPTCHA is broken and an AI problem is solved.

Um, isn’t a broken CAPTCHA the opposite of a win situation?