Websites: "Verify you're a human... No, try again... No, try again... You must verify you're a real person."

The same websites: "You can only make a complaint via Billy, our AI assistant, who will connect you to one of our customer support operatives, Misha, who seems to be an attractive human but is in fact a bot"

@Richard_Littler

*A person with cataract trying to prove they are human*

I know this from experience.

@Richard_Littler Haha, so true, proving we’re human takes longer than actually talking to their “human” bots!
@Richard_Littler Complaints have been down significantly after the complaints feature was upgraded using an expensive automated removal procedure.
@Richard_Littler @nicdex now be fair, if you’re very persistent you may eventually get to talk to a real person on the other side of the planet from you.

@Richard_Littler

Imagine a plot like Idiocracy but AIdiocracy, where someone wakes up in a future where all books, movies, music, art and architecture are created by AIs, and all *consumed* by AIs. Humans are asleep or dead behind their curator bots.

Everything runs, but it's all nonsense. Billboards sell plates of cooked toilet paper, stairways go in circles, boy bands play car crash sounds by stuffing string into their nostrils. Machines guess what humans want and the machines approve.

@Richard_Littler This is PayPal even when you have a major fraud issue that needs urgent action.

@Richard_Littler

What's crazy is that we have relatively simple, low-tech ways of dealing with bots. They're proven to work.

Yet these solutions are eschewed in favor of the dystopian systems we have now.

https://mastodon.social/@localnerve/115146549706671554

@Richard_Littler
The current generation of "verify you are human" are really "verify you were built using the same training dataset as our bot" anyway.
@Richard_Littler In the same vein:

Company: Our self-driving robot car is 300% safer than human drivers!

The same company's website: Prove you're not a robot. Select all stop signs and motorcycles!