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Reddit CEO says facial verification may be introduced. Ostensibly to prevent bots.

But we all know how dangerous this can be. But most likely Reddit users will just accept it.

Although they have a great free analogue right under their noses - Lemmy. Which is many times better than its competitor.

I wish more people would discover Lemmy, but that's unlikely.

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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Hey,

What do you think crowd sourcing means. Like what is your definition in relation to building whatever it is you're describing. How did you get there?

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

What do you think crowd sourcing means

It means a bunch of people doing working in very narrow fields that need to be connected by someone with an overarching view, but there are so many so small fields, that it's impossible for a human to handle. In this particular case.

Unless you figured out telepathy. Then I retract my statements - a large enough network of directly connected telepaths could do this.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No it doesn't. That's not it. And this is how i know you're just a terminally online individual arguing out of instinct rather than common sense. Il not be commenting further.

But to my point. Crowd sourcing these things works. It's a missed opportunity in these early days to be passive and more concerned with bean posts.

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 0 points 19 hours ago

You just replied with a "nuh-uh!" and call me "terminally online"? That's a good one.

You seem know a bunch of buzz-words that you don't fully understand, like "crowd sourcing" in this instance. It's like a magic wand, "just crowd source it, and it'll just work", without realising that - again, unless telepathy is involved - a crowd is still just a bunch of individuals. Without instantaneous real time communication no single individual can spot such a massive pattern as those you are after. Without spotting the "big picture", the whole thing is pointless.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

You can't just magically call everything magical in an attempt to discredit and expect anyone thing you're anybody but dishonest. I'm not spending the evening attempting to keep you on track when you can't be bothered to read and instead you're just looking for bullshit arguments and at worst attempting to discredit for whatever personal reason you have.

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

Again: you're throwing buzz-words around as if they're explanation enough. I'm calling your thinking magical because it is.

Prove me wrong by explaining how do you envision coordinating "crowd sourced pattern spotting" (something that has never been done in the history of mankind, because it "crowd" and "pattern spotting" are almost direct opposites).

There are no "personal reasons" for me saying what I'm saying, nor are my comments "attempts at discrediting". There's literally nothing to discredit here, mate.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago
[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

Your proof of your "crowd source this away" idea is a link to a company that very explicitly uses AI to detect trends...? Are you for real right now?

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's evidence that it works. That the missing piece is the crowd source. You said it's impossible and magical. That is wrong. A problem is the datasets are from before the APIs were locked down. It's hard to get new data. New methods are needed.

Dataset is too technical for what I'm saying. But it's still important here. Communities should be built to combat bots, not ignore the problem. There are ways to identify activity and observe and even interfere to the point that it either costs them too much to keep up or makes them ineffective. But there needs to be the community to build that awareness. Instead it seems like the people that are disadvantaged by these networks and bots also have this mentality to ignore and avoid it all.

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