Right, the same way that car racing has "broken" jogging. This is so dumb. /s
The whole point of competitions is to provide a safe environment thanks to a set of rules all participants AGREE on in order to progress together.
If new tools "break" the competition, we change the rules and that's A-OK.
CTF isn't a natural phenomenon, if tools change, rules change, simple.
The only way this actually works is if you move CTF to in-person only. There's no other way to reasonably prevent the whole leaderboard being taken up by whoever spent the most on tokens.
Sure, I don't know how to make it work. I just know that DeepBlue didn't kill competitive chess. We simply have at least 3 different rule sets, namely
- no computer assistance, which does also mean no mobile on competition, human only
- advanced chess with assistance
- computer only, no human assistance
and arguably chess itself is not doing worst since.
I think the big difference here, is that organisers of chess tournaments don’t have to design multiple entirely new board games for each competition. When AI can one-shot CTF challenges, you have to develop new challenges in secret for every competition, and they are single-use.