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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment (old.reddit.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.zip
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To keep Reddit human and to meet evolving regulatory requirements, we are going to need a little more information. Specifically, we will need to know whether you are a human, and in some locations, if you are an adult. But we never want to know your name or who you are. The way we will do this is by working with various third-party services that can provide us with the essential information and nothing else. No solution is perfect—including the status quo—but we will do our best to preserve both the humanness and anonymity of Reddit. We will share more as we go.

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)
  1. Whatever pigboy says is worth as much as used toilet paper.
  2. This will be likely ineffective against bots but screw legit users major ways.
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should all leave Reddit and move to the Threadiverse! Oh wait.... 😁

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

🤣

...frankly I still get some Schadenfreude from seeing Reddit wreck itself.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But TP is useful

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Clean TP is useful. Used TP has negative value, it's the sort of nasty trash that you see with disgust, and that you can't wait to get rid of.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

#2 is the most likely outcome

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Yup. It isn't like Reddit is known for efficiently tackling the problems that appear.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

Unless needed to hide how many people have left the site

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

You forgot "Pigboy" in the thread title, OP.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

See this is where that goodwill would have come in handy.

Ah well.

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Never trust Reddit.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

So Lemmy is going to see another spike in new users?