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It absolutely can because at least the current version is a Mechanical Turk. The human operating it would just solve the captcha.
Can the human identify the parts with the bicycle in it for me? I'd have to thoroughly consider whether that might be worth 20k.
There are actually services for that, so companies can retrieve websites automatically when they can't: https://2captcha.com/ https://anti-captcha.com/
This came up at work a few times, but in the end it was cheaper to ask the site owner for a data export 🤷