Eli5: who are these robots that reCAPTCHA protects us from?

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Who are they? How does it all work? What would happen if captchas weren’t there?

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Think about Reddit itself, if it allows anyone to post anything at anytime, then nothing stops someone from writing a program to post a million ads / scam links / propaganda to every subreddit it can find.

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