Reddit CEO says facial verification may be introduced. Ostensibly to prevent bots.
But we all know how dangerous this can be. But most likely Reddit users will just accept it.
Although they have a great free analogue right under their noses - Lemmy. Which is many times better than its competitor.
I wish more people would discover Lemmy, but that’s unlikely.
I’m a new lemmy user because of this
Welcome! It’s WAY quieter over here because it’s mostly people, not bots.
This
Welcome to the free side of the internet
The real problem was third party clients I swear
I would tell folks on Reddit to come to the fediverse but I deleted all my reddit accounts.
There will be someone who will do it. Don’t worry.
Reddit has had a bit problem for a long time, and it has probably only gotten worse. I wouldn’t know, because I, an actual human with an opinion, was permabanned in the post-Inauguration bloodbath.
So let the bots run wild, and finish destroying Reddit.
how many of us noped the fuck outa there when they tried to force their garbage app on us…? this will only hasten it’s demise.
I mean, requiring FaceID is a horrible idea, but there maybe might be a better alternative (I’m talking about the general idea of a “proof of humanity” online, not specifically using this solution).
The fact of the matter is that bots are a massive issue online. When russia got sanctioned and cut off from the western Internet, r/Conservative went radio silent for a couple of days - until they figured out how to VPN through the Netherlands. There are whole communities where bots discuss bot-posted content. And I have no doubt in my mind that it will also happen on Lemmy as soon as there’s even a hint of profit* to be found.
* “profit” not as in “monetary gain”, but as “any kind of gain, be it money, influence, propaganda, chaos”, etc., etc.
Every so often r/conservative traffic dies down and the subreddit turns much more centrist. It’s never liberal by any stretch but you’ll actually see lots of criticism poke through. Same thing happens with r/politics occasionally. Reddit is just astroturfed so heavily that there isn’t a point to it anymore. You have worse than a coinflips odds on replying to an actual human.
Worldcoin requires you to use their Orb device to sign up, and you can buy a verified account for $20.
Why not use the bots to build bot detectors or categorize places online that are heavily botted, look for patterns and collect data for others to research.
Because they don’t actually want to do that. Having open platforms means actual conversation happens and that’s poison to authoritarians.
It’s a LOT easier to make bots fake being human than it is to detect bots faking being human.
So a computer can’t ever truly generate a random number but it can generate total random dialogue.
I think we just didn’t make an effort to catalog and look hard enough to identify these patterns.
I feel like if we started to truly look at the most obvious place we could see a lot of things that can be used to identify.
Reddit should crack down on human users instead! Let Reddit be AI Bot Exclusive space!
Reddit is no longer for humans. So yes, the situation is pretty dire.
and yet tech bros scrape it for model training and content research. i used to like AskPhilosophy and the likes back when it wasn’t wackjob agora for clinically insane (a decade ago in not more?) but seeing that shit getting mined is baffling because it is basically a deliberate data contamination.
Im sure the website that sold userdata to every single AI company to train their models on wouldn’t ever even think of selling the faces of every one of its users to a company to train its AI face generator on.
Or that the website which accidentally admitted “the most reddit addicted city” is an air force base that hosts their online counterintelligence teams… Where was I going with this? Hmm must be nothing.
Social platforms are just data sources anyway. This is just another way of enriching the data.
selling the faces of every one of its users to a company to train its AI face generator on
Okay, but wouldn’t it be kind of funny if every AI face generator suddenly started producing faces that look like Redditors?
I mean they already put Epstein and Kirk in there…
Why does every generated face have a neckbeard and fedora?
Astroturfing is only allowed from premium accounts.
Where is the link so I can read about it
Once R brcomes unusable without this, I’m leaving it completely. I just hope many will do the same.
Fuck /u/spez
Reddit CEO: “What? We can’t sell user data on our increasingly punitive and terrible site because the bots keep fucking up the models trained on that data? Hold my beer…”
yikes
It is only unlikely if no one knows about lemmy. I found it yesterday and will Jeep shilling it in reddit until they ban me over there. Form then in I will stay Herr.
