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Modern Captcha or other detection systems like Cloudflare Turnstile will run a bunch of tests in the background of your browser, and try and figure out if your browser is likely a bot. Only after those fail do they bother with the image puzzle shite.
Or at least that's how its advertised. I don't know what value there is to highlighting busses or bikes or whatever now, but it does at least serve to slow down traffic if the servers you're gatekeeping are under heavy load, I guess.
In 20 years CAPTCHA's are gonna be "identify all upstanding citizens" with a bunch of faces and if you pick a minority you're on a list