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Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam (www.theverge.com)

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

The majority of "new users" was bots twenty years ago. How was this news to these chuckleheads?

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 40 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I mean it's worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago*

Yeah, so it REALLY SHOULDN'T BE A SURPRISE

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago

But now bots pass captcha and use a real browser. So… it’s not easy removing them.

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 points 6 months ago

And the majority of posts were mrbabyman.

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