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		lotsofpulp on March 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit has become a guide to personal finance And hence we end up with an internet requiring verification via SMS to prove you're a real person or the stupid Google CAPTCHA images or simply having to upload your government issued photo ID.

pjc50 on March 4, 2020 [–]

Of course, you could just have a GAN generate images of photo ID too ..

(Unless Facebook had access to the national ID database, a terrifying prospect)

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