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Reddit adds labeling for non-human accounts, weighs personhood verification methods— Billions of bots no boon for messy human messaging platform (www.biometricupdate.com)
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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you can connect to a site using a browser, so can a bot.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, but what does that have to do with my comment? (edit: they explained the context below)

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I’m just saying that the proposed solution will be ineffective at filtering bots, but create a false sense of security.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago

It’s trivial to automate browser clicks like that with AI these days.

But yeah, more expensive than an API call.