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Comment by lm28469 | Hacker News Reader

> HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months.

hm, the whole internet really, youtube, reddit, twitter, facebook, blog posts, food recipes, news articles, it's getting more and more obvious

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I find the bigger problem with online comments are that people repeat the same comments and "jokes" over and over and over again. Sure we had those with YouTube 15 years ago when people always spammed "first!" and "who is listening in <year>?" but now it's gotten worse and every single comment is now just some meme (especially on Reddit) or some kind of "gotcha"...

> I find the bigger problem with online comments are that people repeat the same comments and "jokes" over and over and over again.

And bots reposting a trending post from like 12 years ago to farm internet points... with other bots reposting the top comments of the initial post

All will be fixed with real id attestation /s

Not exactly, bot farms can still be made with poor people IDs through black market. I don't know what the solution is going to be, but at some point we might forced to accept the reality that on the internet humans and AI won't be distinguishable anymore and adjust our services independently on the client being a person or a machine.

That is a probable outcome however it would at least cap or limit the ability of bot farms to produce industrial sludge content.

Face ID check every 5 minutes to confirm it’s really you.

ID verification with video capture for every post on an attested device.

lets bring back Chrome's WEI while we're at it

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