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The bot problem is serious right now. I've switched to only allowing accounts that have paid at least once to post for my own network. It's a hard barrier (minimum spend is $2 for my site), but it almost completely solves the bot problem.

We really need some way to "verify as human" in the next coming years.

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> We really need some way to "verify as human" in the next coming years.

I don't believe there is any practical way to do it.

Sure, there are ways to verify a human linked to a specific account exists in a one-off fashion, but for individual interactions you'll never know that it isn't an LLM reading and posting if they put even a small amount of effort to make it seem humanish.

If your site creates more than $3 of value then I’ll happily setup 1000 bots a day and pay you the $2 per account every single day

Supply and demand? He'd just up the charge in that case.

It's cat-and-mouse but he's getting richer and richer while the value to you will be constantly in flux.

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