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“Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”

"project" is right!

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze,

from the article, so it's likely they run on similar principles.

yes to me it read like it was manipulating metadata somehow, not the images themselves, but the article directly contradicts that. and that would be useless as soon as someone saves it as a flat image file or screenshots and cuts it out. i'm assuming for this tool to work it needs to be changing the image directly through some sort of watermark-like system.

this seems interesting, but how does it actually work? "invisible changes to the pixels" is vague and the article does not go into more detail of the actual method of manipulation or the ways that an invisible input can affect visible changes in the output.

gb2/b/

it's both: https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

good bot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57aQQsQiwc

sold out like 12 friggin years ago too. it's not like it's recent news.

it can't really be evaluated in a vacuum. the front page moves so much more slowly that maybe it's the same number of bots concentrated on a smaller number of posts, i dunno. i just know that it's inescapable on popular posts and the bots have hardly needed to adapt because reddit corp doesn't give a fuck.

yes it's always easier to NOT fuck up a fully functional product and drive your userbase off a cliff, but that's not good enough for the huge IPO that huffman is courting. he wants to be able to say "look, we're monetizing 80% more MAUs than before and earning 45% more per person".

frankly i doubt they'll be able to go public at all at this rate. if i were the Newhouses (reddit's owners through Advance Publications) i would certainly be looking for someone to unload this hot potato onto.

this is not an opinion that should be shared by anyone who has opened a frontpage comment section in the last 3 months. bot spam has only gotten significantly worse since july.

the API changes had no effect on bot accounts, anyway. reddit corp specifically made an exception for them and other "low volume" API users - which is why you can still use your own API key to activate defunct 3rd party apps.

(yes, the implication is that normal users can go to hell if they don't want to use the app - but by imitating a bot, reddit gives you preferential treatment. they want bots juicing their activity metrics.)

my guess is that subredditstats.com is itself impacted by the API changes, or this is a consequence of frontpage posts cycling MUCH more slowly than they did before the protests. fewer individual posts reaching r/all means less traffic and fewer comments as a result.

if an end user can serve as an entry point to the entire domain for ransomware, the end user hasn't failed, IT has.

steve huffman is one of his loudest simps