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A comment on Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why?.

Re:Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so ... by edp on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:04PM (#33779604)
On Instagram, when you create an account, you now need to submit a selfie picture while holding a code given to you while registering. For suspicious account, it can even be a video selfie. I know bots are an issue but they should ask for this only when posting/commenting, not for browsing. No way I'll send a picture or video to facebook linked to my email/phone number.
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Re:Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so ... by arcturus17 on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:34PM (#33780070)
I was thinking of signing up to Instagram to create a golf and fitness diary and connect with a few people I really care about. There goes that - fuck that noise!
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Re:Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so ... by bee_rider on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:31PM (#33780030)
Sounds like an interesting stable diffusion prompt.
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Re:Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so ... by mynameisvlad on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:37PM (#33780118)
Text is still a big challenge, I don't think I've seen any that have properly rendered the text you want. I wonder if handwritten text would be easier or harder since there's more variation.
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Re:Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so ... by sentientslug on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:18PM (#33780667)
I thought this was typically done on purpose to prevent exactly the types of situations described, I didn't think it was actually a technical limitation of the model.
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Re:Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so ... by mynameisvlad on Monday November 28, 2022 @06:20PM (#33781317)
https://opguides.info/posts/aiartpanic/ was on the front page a few days ago, and you can see from the results that the text is pretty mangled. If it were intentional, I’d expect it to be clean text, even if it didn’t make sense. It seems to genuinely have trouble with characters and combines glyphs a lot of the time.
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