In the steps it said that it was going to “securely enter [my] password to complete the sign-in process.” However, instead of actually doing that, it gave me the sign-in window and asked me to do it myself.
This was indicated by the orange dot next to the window, which signals that a manual intervention is needed.
Proxy asking for help
Anytime you encounter that orange dot while using Proxy means you have to tap on the Enter browser button to go into its browser and take control. The browser initially loads in a full-screen format, so you might have to magnify the screen to zoom in on the section you need to use.
In this example, after entering my password, I tapped Submit on the bottom right and this resumed Proxy’s attempt at completing the task.
At this point I was thinking to myself that while perhaps not maximally efficient, this one minor hindrance wasn’t so bad.
Unfortunately, my optimism was quickly crushed. Ebay flagged Proxy’s login attempt as “suspicious.” It then asked me to request a security verification code via SMS.
The most frustrating aspect of this, was that Proxy wasn’t contextually intelligent enough to simply click on the Text me button. It once again asked me to manually intervene to literally just click a button:
Unfortunately, ebay still wasn’t convinced and I also had to complete a manual captcha challenge:
And after all that, I had to manually sign in again:
This wasn’t the time-saving efficiency that was promised to me in the promo video.
Results of first task
Despite the initial roadblocks I encountered with logging into my account, in the end Proxy was able to sift through ebay and come up with a list of five camera lenses for me, including links to each listing:
In Proxy’s defense, a lot of those login hurdles were simply a result of security processes that most websites have.
But therein lies the somewhat misleading marketing promise.
As a regular everyday user, you will likely encounter these login issues on almost all of your accounts if you ask Proxy to log into them. This is because they will all flag Proxy as the bot (excuse me, “AI agent”) that it is.
At least initially.
It’s possible that after having you jump through all these manual hoops on an initial Proxy request, that some websites will green flag subsequent attempts to log in.
Having said that, I wouldn’t get my hopes up. The reason is because it appears that Proxy shuffles around IP addresses when using its browser. I noticed this when I got emails from ebay that matched the manual intervention requests by Proxy:
In short, I wouldn’t bet on Convergence AI saving you time on any tasks that require it to log into accounts.
Second task: search the web for remote content writer job openings
For the next request, I wanted to see how Convergence might help someone looking for a job. Here was my exact prompt:
