Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots | TechCrunch
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What stops people from doing a real human verification and then just handing the account off to a bot?
Nothing, it's just additional friction and cost to create them
So it's that meme with the gate with no fence.
Maybe a knee high fence. It will slow the most basic and casual botting, and maybe eliminate some of that very very basic ROI, but it won't do anything to stop the real professionals.
We see countless examples in games. It's an arms race and all you can do is mitigation. As long as there's something to be gained from botting, they'll exist. It's only a matter how much.
I need to ask - what is "real human verification"? 🙃
Seems pretty self explanatory, but what I meant was somebody doing the verification thing personally, as a human being, before passing the account off to a bot.
You can't personally create tens of thousands of accounts, you can pay slave labor in China but that still costs more.
