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This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

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235 points colinprince | 2 comments | 17 Apr 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hliyan ◴[17 Apr 25 14:42 UTC] No.43717617[source]▶
I sometimes wonder whether the end result of this proliferation of bots is the creation of a "premium" Internet where you are authenticated as a real person before entering. I don't mean a walled garden or a gated platform like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. I mean some sort of application layer protocol running on top of TCP that has real world authentication built in. Any application built on top of that protocol is guaranteed to be used by only real human beings.
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diggan ◴[17 Apr 25 14:45 UTC] No.43717671[source]▶
> Any application built on top of that protocol is guaranteed to be used by only real human beings.

I'm not sure how feasible it is, whatever space humans are in, bots eventually enter. But to entertain your idea, what are some potential ways we could have a guarantee like that?

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1. hliyan ◴[17 Apr 25 16:14 UTC] No.43718907[source]▶
Initial verification requires you to physically travel to the nearest verification center, and present yourself in person.
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2. kmoser ◴[17 Apr 25 17:38 UTC] No.43719962[source]▶
In-person visits are of limited value when shady middlemen can give poor folks a fake ID and pay them a pittance to register as "you."