[LoganDark]

I'm very vastly in a minority here, but I can't help but feel uncomfortable that the general internet is converging towards explicity verifying humanity and addressing everyone as human. I liked it a lot better when everything was agnostic - I'd verify "I'm not a robot", I'd interact with other "users", etc... "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a ribbon dog."

Now, websites ask me to verify "I'm human", networks and services are starting to address their users as specifically "humans", and discourse is almost always about whether something or other is written by a "human" instead of just not slop.

I get that reality is what it is, but it just feels icky.