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The IRS is already doing this. They used to have a password-based login system, but they're switching over to ID.me, which requires a scan of your ID and a matching selfie.
I believe the ID.me system went down in flames. Got snagged by this myself for 2021 but opted to call a number and speak to a person instead. Shortly afterwards I discovered an article suggesting my reaction wasn't unique.
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Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
The only people who really can solve this problem are the government.
This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
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>HBO doesn’t want people doing this without paying. But why (from their perspective)? They don't make their money from metadata, they make it from content. Every piece of real monkey-making content is going to get a torrent regardless of if it's protected behind a captcha.
The Netflix interface is so bad that I've been wondering if they made it bad on purpose. Over a decade ago when DVDs in red envelopes were the standard they had a table view of all their content and you could sort and filter it to your heart's desire. When they got rid of this, I used their API to build a CLI tool that just listed shows ordered by how much Netflix thought I'd like it. All of this was vastly superior…
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Non technical people struggle with these alot. My mum regularly asks for help when all she's done is ignore the captcha thinking it's an advert because it stands out like a Google ad (different UI, different font, extra branding etc). At least she's learnt to automatically ignore ads, but it comes with consequence of ignoring captchas as well...
The Internet as a whole has become very elderly unfriendly. Even the iPhone becomes an unnavigable mess once you’re trying to help someone 70+ work with it. And continually changing UIs definitely don’t help.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...
In the HN thread , a lot of people were calling it the grandparent mode.
I see stuff like this and immediately think "the team responsible, in its entirety, should be fired." Zero conscious thought occurred during the entire lifecycle of this feature being implemented.
guessing it's a "you get what you pay for" situation -- outsourcing or interns.
This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
Why do sites need human verification anyway? If the problem is load, then you just need proper rate-limiting in place. Captcha always seems to be mis-identifying the real issue.
This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Not sure what a world without capture is going to look like but it's probably not going to be very good, I guess we'll all be forced to identify with a our "world coin(tm)" ID?
That will be the time when I log off most of the internet.