there is some truth to the issues with bots or AI based spam, but then again, companies are firing competent software devs/IT staff & still expecting everything to work perfectly

the solution to these AI bots is regulation. they've 3/4 companies that all these bottom feeders use for spamming via API. It isn't that hard to fix the problem but governments are too busy with throwing dirt at each other these days & for profit social media want to tag everyone with ID so they can market you better

@nixCraft

But no matter what, those bastards do their things.

They don't even try to fake it with GenAI, deepfake, no, just pure blatant lies with two prominent fingers at your face.

This is a strange way to go fascism, they still, somehow, ask for permission (laws) or justification.

Should we see the good side and telling ourselves that we might still be able to change something?

@nixCraft Fraud is rampant, there is the KYC camp which are typically businesses that have some reason to need to verify you are not exfiltrating their systems, and then there is the tinfoil hat security crowd (mostly us) that sees boogiemen everywhere (and are often right, often wrong.

These two are seemingly at odds, but in reality what it suggests is that there are distinct identity domains that we need to solve for - public and private, and we haven't.

We need zkp public identity yesterday

@nixCraft not sure this is a hot take, frankly

Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't paying attention

@nixCraft, 100% agree

As grave as the situation is, it also has a bright side — it means pushbacks still work and people _do_ still have power

@jackryder @nixCraft

Yea it was after a certain point (when i started caring about my privacy) that some of the reddit communities just didn't make sense being on the platform. r/privacy is one such community, you put all this information out there of the spyware and cookies big tech is using to create a profile of you, but you put it on the platform known for selling your data.

When I commented in that community I felt like the biggest hypocrite on there.

@freevolt24 @nixCraft

I mean, yea, social media and putting yourself on the internet has become so normalized that when I ask people about privacy and why they don't care about anonymity, people just say to me "I have nothing to hide."

I've said this once before and I'll continue to say it as a metaphor, "people are dying from mediocrity," as in, they are slowly becoming more desensitized of their privacy in return of convenience.
Now people are providing government ID.

@catzilla @nixCraft @SnowyCA

A leak is guaranteed for sure. May as well tell people to post their ID publically.