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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by bradgessler on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:13PM (#33377995)
IMO framing it as "get rid of the bots" is the wrong way to solve the problem because it's unsolvable, especially as we head more towards a world of content being generated by increasingly sophisticated ML algorithms.

It's probably best to embrace the bots and instead think about it as a problem of categorizing, quantifying, and applying more metadata to messages that let people, agents, or other bots determine the qualities about the information that they want to know.

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by kaesar14 on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:22PM (#33378082)
100%. Allow open, reasonably rats-limited access to the API, and use the absolutely gargantuan amounts of data Twitter has built up to sort through bots. If other services can do it why can’t Twitter?
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by pixl97 on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:36PM (#33378840)
Who says other services have. Any examples here on your part?
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by buzzkill90 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:29AM (#33382426)
> IMO framing it as "get rid of the bots" is the wrong way to solve the problem because it's unsolvable,

I think it's super simple actually. Wanna get a blue check-mark to prove you are human? Here, pay us 10$ pledge. You'll lose it, if you break the "rulez". Add financial frictions to the game, and bots strategy won't scale...

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