Is It All About to Fall Apart?
For the third time in the last few weeks, I cannot log in to a site I use. This one is Vinted. It appears that like the other two, the implemented two-factor authentication without asking me. The problem with this is that I can no longer log in. To set my phone number for two-factor authentication, I have to be logged in. So just how stupid is this that three different websites have done this to me in the last few weeks?
Easily resolved you say - contact support.
Well, it might be if support was staffed by humans. It isn’t - its AI and stupid. It only tells me to log in and add my phone number. Telling it I cannot log in at all appears to phase it out completely. Probably some human will eventually contact me - maybe not.
As Ai takes over and humanity increasingly adopts safetyism - a new form of communism, how do you all see this playing out?
Me? I see a disaster looming.
AI isn’t intelligent - it’s dumb. It cannot solve issues and problems for two reasons - one - it probably hasn’t been trained properly and two, people appear afraid to let it take over.
Safetyism is another sickness that appears to be playing a role. It is assumed that none of us are capable or competent at making decisions and looking after ourselves. Therefore, rather than just add obnoxious alarms to everything, now, ‘they’ use technology and AI to help us make those decisions. So, you cannot exceed the speed limit in your car, you can’t start it without your safety belt on etc. etc. This all sounds on the surface useful… but it isn’t useful at all. It is because most of the time, the logic is flawed and the AI isn’t trained correctly. It will result in death and injury I predict.
Bu safetyism is also another restriction on freedom. Another way of making us do as we are told. That is why I call it communism. I reject safetyism. I am sentient and I am free to choose. But it is creeping in on all sides restricting your choice and, probably making us less safe.
Imagine, if they can’t think through implementing two-factor authentication - simple as that is - the disasters that await us with enforced safety.
In the end, many of us will reject technology and opt to do without. It is more agro than it worth and, rather than free humanity - it enslaves us.
Don’t believe me?
Just get on a bus or a tram and look around. Gone is any interaction - everyone is dumbly staring at screens consuming garbage.
Our reliance on tech. is such that I can see it all falling apart at some point. and then people who had long ago lost any real skills - replaced by tech and AI - will be in grave danger of extinction.
My advice - use it or lose it.
Absobloodylutely, I abhor all this idiot AI help, I have an 84 yr old Father who is very active, still has all the grey matter but he wants to use things that now require a degree in computing to navigate. If he can't get through to a person via a telephone he is flummoxed. I detest it but it really causes a problem for him. Will he just have to live with us to make sure he gets his pension etc in the future ....or will it be another option for kindly asking if he wants to do the Euth run out asia thing???
I suspect the EU digital watcha-ma-call-it bill is responsible for all the 2FA. Like the fucking useless widget that now adorns the top of my goat's milk carton. It's Mussolini's definition of fascism. Insider dealing will have taken place with the Eurocrats, filling their boots with stocks & shares of the chosen manufacturers of these caps & closures. Swiss owned outfits like Foboha and Kunststoff Schwanden.
What in essence it does it incapacitates small business, leading ultimately to their demise or acquisition for pennies on the dollar. The whole thing is technocratic by design.