the one benefit i see is as a final “lock in your answer” function for any form you’re submitting.
And did they have to stop allowing written signatures because of AI scraping? Or is it just because they never looked legible at all?
the one benefit i see is as a final “lock in your answer” function for any form you’re submitting.
And did they have to stop allowing written signatures because of AI scraping? Or is it just because they never looked legible at all?
I think that’s probably it, or pure cargo cult because “we’ve always had signatures so something’s got to go in that slot”. The whole idea of random scrawls for “authentication” has been weird all along. As if everyone walked around knowing what everyone’s signatures should look like. And if you do know, you can just… write it that way.
(Plenty of countries just have digital “signing” that’s a bit more like something sane, a central authentication thing based on your ID number and 2FA.)
financial institutions had your signature on file and would compare it back in the day. It made sense at one point but it does not gel well once making copies and images of everything became commonplace.
Remember back in the day when you used to have to sign the back of your credit card.
I would write in that block “ASK TO SEE ID”. At least 100 cashiers would read that and then just stare at me.
then like the post office says they won’t take it unless there is a sig so I have to write see id and have a sig which of course my id has a sig.
Yeah. That’s because nobody cares.
We just wanted to get through the line, we don’t care who’s paying your tab.
Absolutely!