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Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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Presumably with about the same tools that gleefully give false positives when checking school assignments.
This may come as a surprise to you so brace yourself.
I am not stupid.
Well, firstly, I've seen the Piefed code.
Secondly, I doubt it that you have some magical accurate AI-detection tools, and Digg and Reddit don't.