@ascentale @Amgine @bikenite A6 the fact that there's enough bot traffic that we need to prove we're human by training machine vision algorithms is emblematic of the enshittification of the internet.

Self driving cars for everyone has always been a stupid idea. Cars infrastructure doesn't scale the way mass transit does. Extensive, interconnected, human operated mass transit would be better than the gridlock caused by vibe coded autonomous vehicles.

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@ascentale @Amgine @bikenite A6. I dislike most captchas, but recognize their purpose. Google's get used to help train their AI vision systems, which always rubs me the wrong way.

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@ascentale @Amgine @bikenite I dislike them, but sometimes it is less evil than not having them.

The quality of data they collect is pretty suspect though, I couldn't access a site recently until I declared a painted curb extension as a cross walk (that they require us to learn US English terms to access websites is also terrible), so they are not collecting good data.

@ascentale @Amgine @bikenite A6.

CAPCHAS are a unholy blight that destroys any attempt at credible UI design. The creator of a website that employs these will endure an afterlife in one of Dante's circles of hell answering questions about traffic lights.

As you can tell I don't really feel strongly about them.

Fortunately they're in decline, cause LLMs can pretend to be human and there are other ways of proving you're not a robot.