Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards
Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards
New AI technology promises to protect your financial info from fraudsters and make it more convenient for you to pick a payment.
New AI technology promises to-
Hmm, where have I heard this before...
lmao. as if the ai was gonna have a better carbon footprint than the small plastic thing you replace every 5-10 years
Is there an AI technology that would help me not roll my eyes every time I hear AI? Can’t wait to add this to the garbage pile of popped bubbles next to NFT, blockchain and metaverse.
And I’m saying that as somebody who uses LLMs for work regularly, it is a useful tool, but the absolute delusional bullshit hype that imagines uses beyond its capabilities is exhausting.
LLM is amazing tech, but holy fuck I can't wait to get out of this bubble. Some of these applications sound like when they put radium in butter in the 50's, because atomic energy was so hype.
Pretty much this. It's the radium craze, or the ozone craze, or a whole bunch of other fads - everything has to have AI/LLMs integrated in some way or it's not "interesting" to shareholders.
Eh, somehow I missed that. Off to DDG for me, because I’m genuinely curious.
“The industry is at a pivotal point - new technologies like Gen AI are rapidly shifting how we shop and manage our finances,” said Jack Forestell, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Visa.
This is so cringey. I get that investors are randomly throwing cash at companies that talk up "generative AI," but it has nothing to do with anything they announced. Is it impossible to just be content with ridiculously sophisticated algorithms? Did someone hold a gun up to these people and demand they spit out some drivel that uses the buzzwords du jour?
Also, the headline feature was solved a decade ago when Apple Pay was released (and no, not by the janky predecessors of Apple Pay but specifically with the launch of Apple Pay, which everything was then changed to replicate). One device that can hold an entire wallet of cards and I can choose what to use right when I pay? Wow! So new.
Apple Pay/Google Pay already exists though?? What's new?
The last credit card I got, it took me like a month or two to bother unpacking the physical card since right after signup I could already add the virtual card to Apple Pay through the bank app and I just used that.
Physical cards are harder to mess with then a phone. Physical cards are safer.
Can you explain that one to me? Anyone can take my card and use it, no one can take my phone and use it.. also I would notice my phone being gone sooner. Cards dont have to transfer to other devices and have to be readded with the banks verification. A card is as easy as beep and draw an X, or not even have to "sign".
I can put my credit card number in any transaction directly, and so can anyone else. Digital payment can provide a random one time card number (at the expense of privacy, admittedly). Physical cards are absolutely not safer.
If a title asks a question, the answer is always "no". No?
Betteridge’s Law.
Generally proves deeply true.
People still use physical cards? I haven’t been carrying any cards at all for so many years now.
I'd be happy to use Google Wallet most of the time but Google is real worried about my custom ROM and won't allow me to.
Assume you are not in US? Phone pay never caught on here in a big way unfortunately.
I did it when I was travelling to the US a few years back and the store clerk looked at me like I had two heads. It's so normal in Canada I never thought much of it, and here I was a celebrity in this store and everyone was just wow'd at the magic I'd done.
It is definitely picking up very quickly currently. Far more common in the last couple years than before.
Sadly, too many places around here don’t get support Apple Pay and even less Google wallet. It’s definitely improved the last few years, probably 80%, but not 100%, so I’ve had to carry mine. So close I can’t wait!
I'm getting old. Google keeps changing their touchless pay system and app. I got tired of switching after the third version of whatever Google is calling it now and gave up. Google pay, no Android pay, no Google wallet!
I remember on reddit once someone from the US complaining about people assuming their bar had EFTPOS machines/pay wave saying "You wouldn't go to the grocery store without your wallet?!"
And me, in Australia just being like...but... I do? I almost never take my wallet with me to the grocery store...
(Although, because my student public transport card is the only thing I can't put on my phone, going out for drinks is one of the few times I'm almost guaranteed to have my wallet) (also because I want to have backups if something goes wrong while I'm inebriated)
I prefer carrying the plastic over carrying a tracking deivce everywhere with me. Then again, I'm one of those weirdos that also still carries cash.
(Note that I'm not saying you should ditch your phone—your priorities are doubtless different from mine—just that for me the tradeoff is not acceptable.)
I don't feel comfortable putting that much important stuff in one thing. If I lose my phone or my wallet, the other can do a lot to help cover for it until I get a replacement
lol for fucks sake this is so deeply stupid
I can't wait for the article saying how we're gonna solve world hunger with AI.
The same way Israel is solving hunger with AI in Gaza.
Stalin once said, "Net cheloveka, net problemy" ("No person, no problem").
Nobody goes hungry if the Human race is extinct.
I think someone already wrote a proposal for that.
Am I missing something or is this the most vaguely written description? I don't get it. Something biometric is all I got out of it
Only when they stop trying to DRM lock phone pay to phones with locked bootloaders will I use phone pay
Within a decade, you’ll likely access all of your cards with one credential and choose which payment method you’d like to use. That includes not just credit and debit cards, but also buy now, pay later options and direct payments from your bank account.
Visa is rolling out technology that will allow you to tap your card on your smart device to add it to your wallet. You’ll also be able to tap your card to your phone to confirm a transaction without needing to input any additional information.
Visa is rolling out technology that will allow you to tap your card on your smart device to add it to your wallet. You’ll also be able to tap your card to your phone to confirm a transaction without needing to input any additional information.
So like almost any tap to pay system?
Shit I was doing this stuff with GPay for years.
Within a decade, you’ll likely access all of your cards with one credential and choose which payment method you’d like to use. That includes not just credit and debit cards, but also buy now, pay later options and direct payments from your bank account.
This is just PayPal.
So …. In a decade we’ll get ApplePay?
Aren't metal cards better?
100%, but they cost the card companies a hell of a lot more to produce. Ergo, plastic.
Cnet? Yeah, no.
The whole premise of how I use virtual cards is to separate - and block, as needed - charges from a given source.
If I use a physical card, it’s because I’m physically in a store and want to choose who charges my card, and when.
This is a step towards making it easier for random things to charge cards unexpectedly, and towards making it harder to dispute charges.
“You were there, per the thumb|face print. Therefore, you must have authorised it.”
That’s a sea change in how questionable charges/questionable disclaimers are handled.
Nope. I absolutely demand that protection, and if I lose it I’m taking my cash out of your bank ASAP and using that, suffering with change be damned.