Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/reddit-will-tighten-verification-to-keep-out-human-like-ai-bots/
Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the “Change My View” subreddit. The large-scale experiment was designed to explore just how persuasive AI can be.
Bet this backfires on them.
I bet there’s already backlash from their “don’t upvote” rule. They’ll be hemorrhaging users like xitter soon.
Reddit will shadow ban everyone except neoliberals, facists and Russian bots
Rofl… Oh. They’re serious. Well. I’m that case. Rotflmfao.
Hey guys! I heard reddit has at least 3 people left. My cousin Fred, his wife Honny, and their friend Emma. I think its a threesome, but I can’t prove it.
Reddit is still pretty popular
It is sad since I hear a lot of people complain about it
Reddit is nothing without anonymity.
You have to enter a slur on occasion to maintain non-bot status.
I still need a bot to help me rewrite my comments so I can close out my account
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Slightly amusing because most of the active users are perhaps AI powered bots now, run by Reddit.
If that is the case, then it seems to me that this is a repeat of the locking out of third parties, done by the api change was two years ago, but for now for those that use bots?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It most certainly won’t apply to their own bots.