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Reddit considers Face ID to combat spam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486731 - March 2026 Reddit is be

Reddit considers Face ID to combat spam - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486731 - March 2026 Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44417497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44417497 - June 2025 Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit are Eroding Sociality - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43821600 - April 2025 Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211010 - April 2024 AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136680 - April 2024 Is it me or is Reddit mostly bots now? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42258993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42258993 - November 2024 Has anyone noticed how overrun by bots Reddit has become? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443633 - September 2024 Detecting Russian Bots on Reddit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19719569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19719569 - April 2019

Rabbit504030201 3mo ago
"I personally am fairly convinced" "It was 100% obvious a few years ago that there was a lot of manipulation going on." so no proof then
- toomuchtodo 3mo ago
  Proof besides Reddit’s CEO considering biometrics to validate humans to combat bot spam? While our beliefs on this topic are irrelevant, it matters to those who might sign contracts with Reddit for their data for LLM training, otherwise they can generate slop to train on internally versus paying for Reddit’s slop from bot accounts. Reddit has limited enterprise value based on their low quality ads business, so proving humans are human is existential to the business. Their only value is capturing adults discussing various topics and selling access to that data as a product at the present moment.
- ricardobeat 3mo ago
  It takes three minutes of browsing Reddit to realize 1/3 of the top posts, and a lot of the comments are AI bots.

Rabbit504030201 3mo ago

"I personally am fairly convinced" "It was 100% obvious a few years ago that there was a lot of manipulation going on." so no proof then

toomuchtodo 3mo ago
Proof besides Reddit’s CEO considering biometrics to validate humans to combat bot spam? While our beliefs on this topic are irrelevant, it matters to those who might sign contracts with Reddit for their data for LLM training, otherwise they can generate slop to train on internally versus paying for Reddit’s slop from bot accounts. Reddit has limited enterprise value based on their low quality ads business, so proving humans are human is existential to the business. Their only value is capturing adults discussing various topics and selling access to that data as a product at the present moment.
ricardobeat 3mo ago
It takes three minutes of browsing Reddit to realize 1/3 of the top posts, and a lot of the comments are AI bots.