Reddit adds labeling for non-human accounts, weighs personhood verification methods— Billions of bots no boon for messy human messaging platform
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/reddit-adds-labeling-for-non-human-accounts-weighs-personhood-verification-methods
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dhork@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 160d
Yup, knew it. This is all just an excuse to get Sam Altman to scan your eyeballs
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 160d
r/conservative is going to lose so much engagment
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 159d
You just got permabanned from r/conservative for that comment. /s
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 158d
I got permananned from r/conservative because I said "I disagree with Tr". I couldn't even finish my comment.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 158d
They know how dumb their audience is so are proactive banning anyone counter manipulating them.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 160d
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 160d
I don't necessarily support this, but I feel like this at least adds a barrier to a single person setting up hundreds of bot accounts easily. Similar to locking your doors, it just adds friction to those that would otherwise not put a lot of effort in. People can still break into your house/run a bot farm, but this makes it just that much more difficult. Again, I don't really support doing this, and it's definitely not being done for user's benefit, but it will likely have some impact on botting.
db2@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 160d
Cheap labor from scam centers in India has entered the chat
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 159d
Let me be the first to downvote you shit take.
20cello@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 160d
Le reddit police i guess
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 160d
They're too busy protecting nazis to be good at the rest of their "job."
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
The article basically says that posting using the API will get posts labeled as "[App]". That's what it boils down to. They even talk about human accounts using AI to write posts.
pennomi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 160d
Evotech@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
It’ll be much more annoying to automate but can’t the ais just use computers now?
Much more expensive to manage bot farms though
pennomi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
Yes, but what does that have to do with my comment? (edit: they explained the context below)
pennomi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d
Ah, gotcha, I hadn't caught that between the lines. :)
Yeah, I think it'll be pretty trivial to get around. Anyone wanting to post automatically just has to sign up manually, do whatever checking, then post using some sort of scraper i.e. directly to the site rather than via the API. Which probably a lot of bots are doing now rather than bothing to set up the API.... heh
I guess it's good that they're trying to do a positive thing (ignoring all the shit they're doing outside of it), but it's probably not going to help much.
db2@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 160d
Klear@quokk.au · 8 pts · 160d
I've always been saying "Fuck Spez", but... not like this!
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 160d
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
realitista@lemmus.org · 15 pts · 160d
What happens when they realize it's all bots?
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 159d
They already know it's mostly bots. They just want to pimp out their human users more. They know they are suckers because they are still on there.
realitista@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 159d
But if they label them the jig is up.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 159d
Yeah they will just be labelling the non connected bot ops. Corporate influence operations, government connected ones, will not be labelled.
winni@piefed.social · 3 pts · 160d
maybe we get it all wrong and reddit is for ai slop only, all human accounts will be banned.
Ok its already pure ai slop
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 159d
Why are you posting ads for a website?? Shouldn't you just post the content here so you're not advertising???