But what's the alternative? Sites need a way to prevent bots overwhelming them, and there's no perfect way to distinguish real users from bots.

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2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe ai companies should have invested any of those billions of dollars into safe and equitable ways of rolling out their new surveillance machines. Oh right that was never the point and this only serves to further that. Got it.

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andrepd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're right, we need big tech to protect us from the problems big tech created.

In the olden 20th century, we had a term for that...

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2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent [-]

You know that protection racket where the mobster came to my corner store and says if I don't pay him he will come later and rough me up? This is a worse deal than that.

	▲	mannanj 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		this is the modern version of that.

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anonym29 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

mCaptcha, ALTCHA, Cap, Friendly Captcha, Private Captcha, Procaptcha, Anubis... there are literally dozens of open source alternatives that aren't feeding the Do Be Evil company... not to mention all of the commercial alternatives - if for whatever reason, you do feel like paying for a service that costs nothing to offer

	▲	UqWBcuFx6NV4r an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Gen off it. Fraud detection is nontrivial and requires ongoing effort. It’s reasonable for people to be compensated for that.

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sieabahlpark 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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