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Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam (www.theverge.com)
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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

There were entire communities popping up dedicated to SEO and advertising. A lot of the spam would happen during the US night time, so they’d have to wake up every morning to sweeping away all the crap. Really curious on how they intend to handle the bots.