Isn't object recognition in a not-distorted environment relatively easy? Click-and-drag is something UI automation does all the time, so that's not the hard part, either.
A couple more thoughts:
This requires a huge, human-written database (or it requires an algorithm ... and, oh wait, we already decided that if an algorithm can do it, then it's not really worth of being a captcha)
Also, a few of the images, especially the coffee mug ones, look like they could be solved by selecting the whole image.
A couple more thoughts: This requires a huge, human-written database (or it requires an algorithm ... and, oh wait, we already decided that if an algorithm can do it, then it's not really worth of being a captcha)
Also, a few of the images, especially the coffee mug ones, look like they could be solved by selecting the whole image.