I think there's something wrong in the way were looking at this. Free services are made to get humans attention for advertising or eventual payment. If a servic

I think there's something wrong in the way were looking at this. Free services are made to get humans attention for advertising or eventual payment. If a service like reddit is overrun with bots, won't the services shutdown? There won't be any "public" places like now, except for forums like this where monetizing isn't the goal. I'm not sure it's a problem for a place like hackernews -- spam would be a problem, but we know that. Voting and verifying that content is 'good' could be an issue, but why would the bot/AIs care about hackernews internet points? Email was open to everyone, and when the spam came we filtered it. Comments on news articles, youtube and amazon reviews are already mixed with degrees of 'bad' and uselessness, and we mostly ignore it. Only the 1% comment, 10% vote, or something like that. Generated content made by us and for us seems more likely as the future, and confirmed identity doesn't matter much for that.