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NotAnotherLemmyUser @lemmy.world

2mo ago

Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots

Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots | TechCrunch

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43732137

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themachinestops @lemmy.dbzer0.com

2mo ago

Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots

techcrunch.com /2025/05/06/reddit-will-tighten-verification-to-keep-out-human-like-ai-bots/

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Reddit will tighten verification to ~~keep out human-like AI bots~~ collect and sell as much data on its users as possible
What stops people from doing a real human verification and then just handing the account off to a bot?
- Nothing, it's just additional friction and cost to create them
  
  So it's that meme with the gate with no fence.
- I need to ask - what is "real human verification"? 🙃
  
  Seems pretty self explanatory, but what I meant was somebody doing the verification thing personally, as a human being, before passing the account off to a bot.
- You can't personally create tens of thousands of accounts, you can pay slave labor in China but that still costs more.
I just logged into reddit and it didn't work until I completely disabled uBlock Origin. The first time ever. Sooo... what are they using to keep out those bots?
- Other bots
- I just tested this and I logged in without issue with ublock origin...perhaps it's a setting you're using or a specific ad list?
Only the bots they like are allowed.
- Why does he look like he's about to say "my precious..."

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