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Digg has abandoned the relaunch of its link-sharing service <https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai>,
because they couldn’t fend off the endless waves of AI bots:

When they announced its relaunch, Rose told The Verge that AI
could “remove the janitorial work of moderators and community
managers.” Now, the new Digg’s CEO Justin Mezzell writes in a note
pinned to the homepage that, “We knew bots were part of the
landscape, but we didn’t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or
speed at which they’d find us. We banned tens of thousands of
accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard
external vendors. None of it was enough.”

How do the big services (Facebook, Xwitter etc) deal with it? Do they
just fight AI with more and bigger AI?
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In article <10p7cse$1gcgv$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid says...

Digg has abandoned the relaunch of its link-sharing service <https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai>,
because they couldn?t fend off the endless waves of AI bots:

When they announced its relaunch, Rose told The Verge that AI
could ?remove the janitorial work of moderators and community
managers.? Now, the new Digg?s CEO Justin Mezzell writes in a note
pinned to the homepage that, ?We knew bots were part of the
landscape, but we didn?t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or
speed at which they?d find us. We banned tens of thousands of
accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard
external vendors. None of it was enough.?

How do the big services (Facebook, Xwitter etc) deal with it? Do they
just fight AI with more and bigger AI?

I suppose biometric authentication is just around the corner for those behemoths.

It's interesting that the tiny portion of humanity still rooting for
moderated Usenet newsgroups and IRC chats aren't concerned about AI
takeover. Can we smirk a bit yet?


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On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:31:57 +0100, Vanadium wrote:

It's interesting that the tiny portion of humanity still rooting for moderated Usenet newsgroups and IRC chats aren't concerned about AI
takeover. Can we smirk a bit yet?

There are certain people who, seemingly as a matter of habit, respond
to questions by copying/pasting some AI transcript or other. Even more disingenuously, they might glibly add “this is what the AI says”, as
though to disclaim any responsibility for the quality of what they’re posting.

Makes you wonder why they bother ...
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