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I'm not really sure why anyone cares about bots. They've been part of the internet at least since search engines were invented. I guess spam is an issue curre

I'm not really sure why anyone cares about bots. They've been part of the internet at least since search engines were invented. I guess spam is an issue currently, but if bots become advanced enough to avoid heuristics, by making insightful and useful comments, they are probably better than most human users. Proof of work captchas like mcaptcha can stop, or at least make very expensive, (d)dos attacks.

acdha 3y ago
Bots aren’t random, someone is running them for a reason. The problem isn’t the “insightful and useful comments”, it’ll be the ones which sound like that to any non-expert but are designed to sell products or push political outcomes. Historically the tell for things like that were things like copy-and-paste messages, poor grammar or spelling, etc. which LLMs are great at avoiding.
polygamous_bat 3y ago
> I'm not really sure why anyone cares about bots. They've been part of the internet at least since search engines were invented. It's all fun and games until foreign agencies are controlling who wins in your elections through misinformation and propaganda.