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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 | 1 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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praptak ◴[17 Apr 25 14:56 UTC] No.43717844[source]▶
I'm afraid it's one of those things where everyone thinks it would be nice if it existed but the real demand is not strong enough to support an implementation. But who knows, maybe it will change someday.
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jowea ◴[17 Apr 25 15:15 UTC] No.43718116[source]▶
Is it not? Maybe not the full tech level, but real ID requirement for facebook is already a thing for a while.
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praptak ◴[17 Apr 25 17:33 UTC] No.43719890[source]▶
I don't think Facebook satisfies the demand for interaction with actual human beings.
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jowea ◴[17 Apr 25 18:20 UTC] No.43720431[source]▶
Hah good point. Which leads to what the other comments brought up, what's to stop real people from selling their ID to bot posters?
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1. praptak ◴[17 Apr 25 19:06 UTC] No.43720881[source]▶
I can imagine a system which assures one ID per actual verified meat human. The ID can be banned from communities, blocked by individuals or kicked out of the platform.

I think this would limit the supply of IDs, so a big improvement over the current situation where bot posters can just farm fake IDs. Obviously this has some assumptions - for example that most humans joining the platform do so in good faith and not to just sell their IDs to bots.