Who actually rules whom here? It's not just the Ampelmännchen in Berlin who are asking themselves this question when, as now, or actually permanently, there is a crisis. After all, they are dealing with a person-to-human situation. A starting point for which one can only envy them. Because the coalition that is making life increasingly difficult for us is one between man and machine. For a long time, the first group considered itself to be the undisputed sovereign. Stupid, who thought this would go on forever. The bots are now claiming government responsibility for themselves.
Anna-Lena Niemann
Editor in the "Technology and Motor" department.
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Have you roughly estimated how much time it takes to assure a machine that you are human? The Internet, and everything you do there, has switched to reflexive turbo mode. No registration attempt, nothing, can do without a question-and-answer session. "Are you human? I don't think so. Prove it!", the computer mocks us and forces us to type in blurred rows of numbers or click on photos with traffic lights and without males, like a trained dancing bear. Recently, a booking platform wanted to get taxis five times in a row. And in order to buy a simple train ticket, the computer asks us, quite frankly, to make a hook on humanity. After all, the intentions are no longer hidden. So we delete cookies that we have never asked for. We struggle with pop-up windows that think they can sell us something if they hide the cross to close it well enough. And now this, too.
This captcha thing is supposed to make the internet somehow safer. Sadly, no one is interested in the tarnished ego of those who are no longer taken seriously as a danger, i.e. as opponents at eye level. The bot is a wolf to the bot. We are just toothless tigers. But maybe the Internet is just so annoying that everyone is finally looking forward to the update, the Metaverse. In the current commercial, one marvels at doctors who heal knees and students who stroke mammoths. This is an ideal world. Where man and machine are finally completely one. Transhumanists of all countries, unite.