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What's the plan to tackle the horde of incoming AI bots? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm sure this is a common topic but the timeline is pretty fast these days.

With bots looking more human than ever i'm wondering what's going to happen once everyone start using them to spam the platform. Lemmy with it's simple username/text layout seem to offer the perfect ground for bots, to verify if someone is real is going to take scrolling through all his comments and read them accurately one by one.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The architecture of lemmy means that the API is completely open. Bots do not need to even scrape or do anything with the website, they can do everything through the API. it doesn't matter how simple the layout is. Lemmy is open source as well and the API is fully documented and available to the public.

Lemmy devs are going to need to do some additional work to differentiate bot/human accounts. In the meantime its going to be on the admins to identify and remove/ban these accounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

API is fully documented

Yes, but last I checked, it was documented very poorly. It's just bad enough that I'm not super motivated to build helpful tools, but not bad enough to discourage trolls.