I’m soooo proud of the EU creating their own payment options. Might not be perfect, but at least it’s not this.
Is it actually live yet? I’ll certainly switch when I have the option.
Christ almighty I need language that can robustly and efficiently communicate the depths of my frustration with the lack of wisdom and thought behind this choice.
VISA: “We wont let adults engage in consensual adult activities via our payment network becuase some religious nutjob somewhere might complain about it, but we’re gonna hand over our network to AI so it can spend all your and our money because we’re customer first”
also just a reminder there was a big password breach with instagram/meta/whatever because people asked an AI agent to give them the passwords for famous peoples accounts.
I cant wait for something similar happening on VISA, someone prompt bombing to get the AI to charge a random account and people melting down as 10s of thousands of dollars of charges appear out of no where.
You can’t buy weed with a Visa card, either, even in places where it’s legal.
I buy weed with a Visa card all the time.
Do you mean you can’t buy weed in places where it’s been only decriminalized but not fully legalized? Decriminalized means it’s still illegal but the government just decided to stop enforcing the law. It’s not actually the same as legalization, and yeah it results in all kinds of stupid situations. And yeah, a big company isn’t going to engage in something that’s technically illegal even if the law won’t be enforced.
No I mean fully legalized states. No bank in the US will work with a dispensary, so if you live here and are buying weed with one, it’s because they’re exploiting a loophole where you’re not buying weed with a Visa card, you’re “withdrawing cash”. Getting change in cash is a tell-tale sign that this is what they’re doing.
its still illegal federally, and fed laws are above state laws.
Which is why.
I’m pretty sure it’s still a federal crime in the US.
Here in the True North Strong and Free, weed is legalized at all levels of government and I can confirm that I can indeed buy weed with a Visa card. I can even buy it online and have it delivered to my door by the postal service. That got me through the pandemic.
Sorry your country kinda sucks about this, but it’s not really a credit card thing. CC companies suck for many reasons, but this isn’t one of them.
also just a reminder there was a big password breach with instagram/meta/whatever because people asked an AI agent to give them the passwords for famous peoples accounts.
That’s misleading, accounts have been taken over but passwords have not been leaked (how would that even be possible?)
They got the ai agent to send the password reset onetime code to a new address that they supplied through the chat.
Effectively hijacking the pw reset and its safeguard. The users password did not need to be known
I was gonna say, if they knew their users’ passwords, then they already had bigger problems.
Lets get mastercard in on this as well and then we’re almost halfway to economic collapse
They already are. And paypal, stripe, etc. They are all in an “arms race” to become the preferred AI shopping payment system.
fuck yeah, burn it all down.
This money thing was overrated anyway.
Visa is gonna hand over my bank details to a chatbot, but if I want to buy a game with anime tits Visa flips the fuck out and starts threatening platforms.
Aaaaand people trick it into paying with someone else’s info in 3…2…
More like the company. I have yet to hear of one user gaining access to another user’s session/info?
Instagram allowed account recovery without verification
Holy fucking shit we’ve lost our minds collectively.
Wait until you try to buy the newest 60 series gpu.
hope MC doesnt follow suit. would have to go back on the cash system then
They already have, read the article.
i did read it top to bottom
Visa’s biggest competitor, Mastercard, has also been introducing its own AI-shopping features to its payment network on a smaller scale.
Then you missed this part.
long as im not automatically opted in, it matters not much
Payment integrations with AI is NOT a good idea. I still remember a few years back a controversy that happened with Amazon’s Alexa. Apparently, alexa speakers started ordering people dollhouses after hearing its name on TV. Yes ik ik you can disable purchases from amazon from the alexa app but by default, it was enabled.
This article covers it all: https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/7/14200210/amazon-alexa-tech-news-anchor-order-dollhouse
This is the main part
At the end of the story, Anchor Jim Patton remarked: “I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse,’” According to CW6 News, Echo owners who were watching the broadcast found that the remark triggered orders on their own devices.
Having Alexa automatically order stuff is really insane. Like it’s just going to buy stuff without checking the prices and and comparing products.
But I suppose it makes sense to Jeff Bezos who doesn’t care about the price of anything and has a human assistant that checks product reviews and such to make sure their boss gets a good product. So of course everyone will want to have a crappier version of what billionaires have and no one cares about the price of the things they buy, right?
This is awesome! I can’t wait to read the articles of how this goes wrong for dumbasses who use it. Should be fun!
totally going to happen. anyone who makes posts about how they got screwed should be met with laughter. nothing less. yes I’m saying blame the victim.
A fool and their money is soon parted
Chef’s kiss!
GParTed
Who is more the fool? The fool, or the fool who follows the fool?
I could not agree more. 5 years ago I would have been entirely against “blaming the victim” because there wasn’t that much information on how corporations were fucking everyone over, so only the paranoid (like some of us here) were already either taking action or looking into ways to take action.
However, today nobody has an excuse to keep getting fucked claiming “I didn’t know”. The information on all the bullshit these corporations pull on customers is more abundant than air, yet people choose to keep giving them money.
So, yeah, I’ll be LMAO watching this unfold.
there wasn’t that much information on how corporations were fucking everyone over,
I’m sorry, what? Did you think the entire genre of corporate dystopia fiction, like Brazil or Neuromancer, was just a fabrication ungrounded in reality for decades? It’s been open class war in the god damn streets.
I’m ashamed to admit that yes, I was one of those imbeciles.
At this point the victim is also the perpetrator
So we’re getting robbed?
Always have been.
Of the list of things I would never do. Giving an AI my credit card to shop for me is pretty near the top of the list.
I still don’t trust having it on my phone.
What about your investment portfolio? https://robinhood.com/us/en/agentic-trading/
Why does everything have to be an AI agent, I don’t get it.
If you desperately want AI to do your trades then the best options are one of the trading algorithms that are around for ages now, at least they don’t hallucinate.
People really lost the plot a while ago.
It will take time for people to fully trust AI agents to do their shopping, Forestell acknowledged. At first, Visa expects the majority of transactions to still loop in humans, with AI agents sending a notification for consumers to approve the actual purchase.
“Now, imagine you do that a thousand times over the course of some period of time,” he said. “And then your agent says, ‘Do you want me to just not check?’”
This is some capitalist hellscape shit when we’re being driven to hand over consumerism even wtf. Really scraping the bottom of the proverbial moral barrel fighting for this
They want to close the loop and get the human out of it
Yes, only after obtaining all that sweet grim data I imagine
I recommend the novel Qualityland. Its about a guy who received an item AI ordered for them which they did not want, breaking the system in the process.
Hadn’t heard of this before, thank you for the recommendation! Sounds like it might provide some ideas to bring it all down :3.
Bill for a new car arrives in your email. ChatGPT says I figured it was time for you to get a new car. Bank says can’t return it as it’s a legit purchase from your account.
Fun fact: banks don’t like people fucking with their money. A massive influx of fraud claims over a foreseeable risk will be a slam dunk for the banking industry to kill openAI and auction off its corpse.
That’s wishful thinking at best. Banks have your money invested in the AI bubble right now. If anything, they’re already working to disqualify purchases made by AI from being considered fraud.
Is it better to withdraw all our money from banks and return to cash?
Yes, the sooner the better
An investment they can pull out again at any time it stops being beneficial to them.
Banks are already starting to unload the loans. They will soon be in someone’s pension fund
I don’t trust big businesses to act in my interest, even when it is also very much in their best interests.
Witness the insurance industry flagging the risks of climate change an a massive risk to their industry, and then not using their immense marketing and lobbying power to push for changes that would ultimately result in better future profits (and even survivability) for themselves.
It was cheaper to create climate exceptions.
Things started getting bad when Visa started giving merchants your new card expiration dates. No longer can you rely on an expired card canceling a service or subscription.
Honestly it’s fucking evil. I had cards expire and thought, awesome, finally done with those subscriptions! Then I noticed I was still getting charged for them on my brand new card.
We’ve let them take our money, manage it for us, and now they’re turning around and saying “don’t worry, you’ll still get everything you need … Just turn over your finances and decisions to us”.
Fuck this
Can you not just… cancel the subscription?
Some of them not so easily, no. I had a subscription where I had to call and get forwarded twice over an hour to get someone who kept asking what they had to do to keep my service, dropping fees and halving my monthly rate for 6 months, etc. They make it really hard to cancel.
But, like, depending on the contract you have, stopping to pay doesn’t absolve you from it. They can just send the cost of the remainder of your term to collections if they want to. So figuring out how to cancel that subscription is kinda worth it.
Also, if you want your card provider to stop a certain merchant from getting payments, you can usually do that relatively easily.
Also also, I know that’s not always an option, but I just have almost no subscription I can’t cancel month-to-month (pretty much just phone, Internet, VPS, stuff I need long-term anyway).
Also, if you want your card provider to stop a certain merchant from getting payments, you can usually do that relatively easily.
That is becoming less “relatively easy” than it was even a few years ago. The CC companies are adding more steps than there once was.
It is relatively easy for me, but I am with a relatively modern bank in Germany. Am sure it’s worse in the States.
And that’s part of why I transferred over to privacy.com for all my online stuff. Every online website/service gets a dedicated card, with set limits and are easily deactivated.
Unfortunately, privacy.com only works in the united states. I’m unaware of any alternatives.
I did the exact same after. Love that service.
No hidden fees… Because if you try to charge past that limit I set, it gets denied lol
Revolut can create virtual and single-use cards. Some places don’t accept the single ones, but you can just create a new virtual card and deactivate it right away.
only accessible through a mobile app.
apparently currently they allow it, but as lots of bank apps deny operation to degoogled phones, phones with a replaced rom, and rooted phones, it has the risk of losing access to your money when they decide to implement those practices. normal banks have a website and offices where you can manage your finances.
Just call in and say your card was stolen. They’ll send you a new card with a different number. And auto payments on the card will all stop.
Not necessarily. Some companies with auto payments set have agreements with card companies and they roll with the change.
Agree, but highly recommend checking out Privacy for temp cards.
I feel like it really started getting bad when Visa started canceling any payment processed via “illicit” (porn) means
People must be so time poor that this seems a good idea. Having stuff arrive at the door that I didn’t know I wanted and balancing the books afterwards seem like new mystery experience awaiting.
That happened a lot before I retired from drinking
