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Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
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Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots | TechCrunch
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No they won't lol
If they didn't do it already, it's not gonna happen now. This is lip service to the shareholders
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They want more users to make accounts. Blocking nsfw content to non-users was a start but now they can make a bigger push.
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Nsfw Still works in old.reddit as a non user.
Or so a friend tells me
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It's in their best interest to suppress non-human conversations. What are you talking about?
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Is it? Reddit has been full of bots for years.
And if the r/CMV thing didn't make it apparently, the recent wave of them weren't "caught in the act" and only became a "problem" when the researchers announced their shitty experiment.
If realistic chat bots can fool the masses, why on earth would reddit get rid of them? It helps their metrics. "Look at how active our site is! Buy stock!"
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Only their own bots are allowed.
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No it isn't and they have openly talked about doing this practice back in the early days of reddit to make the site appear more active than it really was. Nothing has changed.
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Where on Earth have you gotten that bizarre idea? It is in their interest to promote engagement, human or not, by any means necessary.
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Yeah it's definitely the bots and not the fashy admins that drove me away from reddit.
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I mean the bots don't help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There's like 6 prominent "Am I the Assholes", a bunch of text message "screenshot" subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of "explain the joke" ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it's obviously AI
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Everyone has their own reasons. If you disagree with their management, then you should celebrate other people choosing to leave, even if for different reasons than your own.
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I'm not complaining about people leaving, just saying the bots are not the biggest problem.
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Por que, no los dos?
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What and destroy 90% of their traffic?!?
“That’s a bold move, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.”
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AI bots.
Not the rest of them.
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Yeah the manual bots are ok (humans?) I guess
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This has nothing to do with bots. Verification comes with more info provided on your part, which they will sell.
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I got ecchi dolls (China knockoff, cheaper but decent) from a site called OtakuCrate once, they've emailed me to confirm that the R18 loot is back under new US regulations, which means future orders just require your legal identification. I live in Europe, so there's no damn way I'm conforming to any privacy-invasive law, and I'm also not stupid.
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It can be both. Reddit has a history of fabricating conversations. The way they sell advertising implies a certain level of engagement from their user base which can lead to bots pushing products in the form of reviews or by mention.
I think it's worth noting that Reddit, at one time, did have third party bot protection; however, it only protected their advertising. I can only imagine what the rest of their traffic looks like, but I would not be surprised if they were using bots of their own.
Like you said, they can make some money selling your information but they can also control the narrative how they choose.
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Too little, too late
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Lol, they're the ones using the bots to fake engagement in the first place.
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I Think Thies weil continue to work. Only foreign bots are exkulpiert.
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Hah, yeah. One could say it's a form of digital nepotism.
"Only our bots get go work here!"
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Like "closing the gate after the sheep already escaped", but in reverse?
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like: Closed the gate after the wolf got in?
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Closing the gate after the wolves have got in eaten all the sheep, had a nice rest, and then left. And then about 30 years past.
Sure maybe small trees are now growing in the now ungrazed pasture, but I guess late is better than never.
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what about their own Ai bots lmao?
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*reddit will tag their own chatgpt bots to prevent them from being banned, and then through false positives will ban the last of the real users from the site.
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Oh no! Anyway
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"Drink verification can to continue"
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They’re doing this to better identify you
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Don’t think they’re doing this out of the goodness of the hearts, they’re just trying to avoid the “shit in, shit out” affect of their data sample.
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Too late ~
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The bots post better comments than most of their users.
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Someone could create a forum for bots to discuss with each other. Call it Redbit. The bot could generate every possible questuon to ask and even steal questions from quora, reddit, Xitter, and every other forum, various AI bots can then reply to those questions with the best replies.
It can help put reddit out of business. Since most people are just looking for answers when they search google and get a reddit hit, most people don't even bother to sign for reddit and etc.
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Suuuurrrre they will...
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I always get 'Blocked by Network security' for trying to access Reddit from a VPN
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Bots are all “f spez, I’m switching to lemmy!” Ever relatable, they are!
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It's already happening, I see I opened accounts but none of my comment gets posted with accounts I don't know why , this is with new accounts
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Same happened to me, all my old accounts which I had for years got banned for no reason and new accounts gets banned as soon as I comment.
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