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What stops someone from validating an account, then posting using a bot?
Le reddit police i guess
They're too busy protecting nazis to be good at the rest of their "job."
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.
If you can connect to a site using a browser, so can a bot.
Yes, but what does that have to do with my comment? (edit: they explained the context below)
I’m just saying that the proposed solution will be ineffective at filtering bots, but create a false sense of security.
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.
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
It’s trivial to automate browser clicks like that with AI these days.
But yeah, more expensive than an API call.
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.
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