I'm not doubting that face recognition, or any other biometric, is being used as a form of payment or identity.
What I'm saying is that people are automatically leaping towards this dystopian future where face recognition will be the only way to pay for things and we all will be subject to a social credit check before we can buy food.
Any time any new sort of technology comes out, some people just get scared and go to the worst possible outcome for it.
45 years ago, my step father was sure that credit cards were the Mark of the Beast and we would no longer be able to use cash (or checks) to pay for things. And the government would decide what we could and could not buy. And he double-downed on that when ATMs came out.
I'm sure he would have had an aneurysm when smartphones came out and we could put payment methods on it.
But did any of his nightmares come true? Nope.
But the thing that bothers me the most with this post is how easily people will believe it, with no further investigation or even much thought.
Some random ass person posted a photo of some other random ass person posting a 10-second clip of someone using facial recognition to pay for something in China and now everyone here has jumped to the conclusion that everyone in China has to do this to buy groceries and this is coming to the US soon, where it will be the only way we can buy groceries or anything else and the US is going to set up a social credit score like China. And we'll all have to eat bugs!
I'm not doubting that face recognition, or any other biometric, is being used as a form of payment or identity.
What I'm saying is that people are automatically leaping towards this dystopian future where face recognition will be the only way to pay for things and we all will be subject to a social credit check before we can buy food.
Any time any new sort of technology comes out, some people just get scared and go to the worst possible outcome for it.
45 years ago, my step father was sure that credit cards were the Mark of the Beast and we would no longer be able to use cash (or checks) to pay for things. And the government would decide what we could and could not buy. And he double-downed on that when ATMs came out.
I'm sure he would have had an aneurysm when smartphones came out and we could put payment methods on it.
But did any of his nightmares come true? Nope.
But the thing that bothers me the most with this post is how easily people will believe it, with no further investigation or even much thought.
Some random ass person posted a photo of some other random ass person posting a 10-second clip of someone using facial recognition to pay for something in China and now everyone here has jumped to the conclusion that everyone in China has to do this to buy groceries and this is coming to the US soon, where it will be the only way we can buy groceries or anything else and the US is going to set up a social credit score like China. And we'll all have to eat bugs!
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FFS people. Get a grip.