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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)

submitted 3 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

The post mentions World ID as an example of a third-party service that used biometrics as a basis to prove humanness, and says “the internet needs verification solutions like this, where your account information, usage data, and identity never mix.”

Yup, knew it. This is all just an excuse to get Sam Altman to scan your eyeballs

[+] pennomi@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

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[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 points 3 months ago

but I feel like this at least adds a barrier to a single person setting up hundreds of bot accounts easily

Cheap labor from scam centers in India has entered the chat

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Let me be the first to downvote you shit take.

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Le reddit police i guess

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

They're too busy protecting nazis to be good at the rest of their "job."

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months 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

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

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

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

r/conservative is going to lose so much engagment

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You just got permabanned from r/conservative for that comment. /s

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago

They know how dumb their audience is so are proactive banning anyone counter manipulating them.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] Klear@quokk.au 8 points 3 months ago

I've always been saying "Fuck Spez", but... not like this!

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What happens when they realize it's all bots?

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But if they label them the jig is up.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

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 points 3 months ago

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 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why are you posting ads for a website?? Shouldn't you just post the content here so you're not advertising???