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Seems like there's a potential for a (productive?) arms race here: services like Twitter or Facebook might (and presumably already do) algorithmically try to id
by gammarator 16y ago
Seems like there's a potential for a (productive?) arms race here: services like Twitter or Facebook might (and presumably already do) algorithmically try to identify fake users. That evolutionary pressure will generate more sophisticated bots...
- Anon84 16y agoAutomatic detection of bots and suspicious behavior is part of what we are trying to do with Truthy http://truthy.indiana.edu http://truthy.indiana.edu
- windsurfer 16y agoSounds like Blade Runner ;)
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoYou're in a desert walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and you see a tortoise.
- benologist 16y agoConsidering Twitter didn't react to Quora registering so many accounts they had to use a crowdsourcing service I don't think they care that much about bots.
- michaelbuckbee 16y agoI think may speak more to Quora's connections than Twitter policy. I know of several startups that had legit accounts suspended because of supposed botlike behavior (things like they had a music venue discovery service and were making a twitter acct for every major city in the US).
- bad_user 16y agoUgh, that would be sooo cool -- some people really don't pass the Turing test. I can see the headlines now :)