LCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoDigg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spamwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1330arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1326arrow-down1external-linkDigg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spamwww.theverge.comLCP@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·edit-226 days agoThe majority of “new users” was bots twenty years ago. How was this news to these chuckleheads?
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·26 days agoI mean it’s worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-226 days agoYeah, so it REALLY SHOULDN’T BE A SURPRISE
minus-squarepanda_abyss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·26 days agoBut now bots pass captcha and use a real browser. So… it’s not easy removing them.
The majority of “new users” was bots twenty years ago. How was this news to these chuckleheads?
I mean it’s worth saying that the new bots are kind of a different league to the old bots.
Yeah, so it REALLY SHOULDN’T BE A SURPRISE
But now bots pass captcha and use a real browser. So… it’s not easy removing them.