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Maybe they don't need to ban accounts, but instead put up a "bot check", sort of like their new editorial process? Something along the lines of "This account ha
by programmarchy 6y ago
Maybe they don't need to ban accounts, but instead put up a "bot check", sort of like their new editorial process? Something along the lines of "This account has been identified as likely being a bot. Read more." To remedy a false positive, the human could provide Twitter with a an official ID to remove the warning.
- gruez 6y agoThen you get hate from the hn crowd about how they're violating everyone's privacy by deanonymizing them
- leereeves 6y agoWorse, Twitter can't be trusted to keep the IDs safe. They've suffered many data breaches in the past. And it wouldn't even stop the bots, because Twitter isn't limited to Americans, so bot makers could easily send fake official IDs from someplace Twitter can't check. Or send stolen offical IDs from other data breaches.
- joering2 6y agoI bet there are some ThisIDDoesNotExist websites that bots use to autogenerate vast majority of fake ids, probably by using ThisPersonDoesNotExist website. You can generate realistc photos of IDs from countries that Twitter cannot positively verify those bc in USA there are ways to check authentity of your document. But IDs from Russia or Ukraine - no way.
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- quantummkv 6y ago> To remedy a false positive, the human could provide Twitter with a an official ID to remove the warning. That would work only against casual bots. The big nation-sponsored botnets won't have issues with providing genuine government issued identities for bots. Which kind of defeats the whole purpose and wastes a lot of resources twitter would like to use elsewhere.
- dependenttypes 6y agoThey already do that. Fun fact, I was never able to make and use a twitter account even after verifying it with my phone and email. Apparently I was a bot from the start, before even posting anything.