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Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Their tolerance of racism and bigotry was why I left

It seemed like every shitty person wanted to make it a far-right safe place

I'm glad it failed

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

There was once a reddit alternative, namely voat, that started normal and became the most alt right incel qanon thing imaginable. Here's a dataset with voat data and posts https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05933v1

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (15 children)

those were the bots

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[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should bring back google circles

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[–] IckabodKobain@feddit.online 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OH NO! But how? They resurrected Kevin Rose for this! /s

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wasn't AI part of their "selling" point?

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"we're reddit, but with AI!"

I noped so hard away from digg

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't reddit already have ai?

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it was, it was a bad stratagy.

AI is the only industry that is somehow nonprofitable, without customers, and yet also propping up the economy right now.

Just waiting for this stupid bubble to pop

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean, reddit only got big because Digg made some very stupid moves before, so ... pretty on brand

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

well duh, reddit/X/Insta, MEta,,etc is infested by AI BOT/bot spammers for a while to spread propaganda or do things like promote links of OF, or other businesses. thats the other reason why they are very ban heavy as of late. diggs or any other platform would suffer the same fate.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There were entire communities popping up dedicated to SEO and advertising. A lot of the spam would happen during the US night time, so they’d have to wake up every morning to sweeping away all the crap. Really curious on how they intend to handle the bots.

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