Bots have always been a problem on these platforms, but it has taken the deluge of AI generated accounts to force platforms to truly wrestle with the problem.

The upside is hopefully there are fewer bots on these platforms, which has many positive second-order effects. The downside is the method of human verification as ID cards will lead to more identity theft, fake IDs, and a new set of problems.

I have zero trust this new thing will be implemented well. Reddit was my primary social media presence for over a decade, until one random morning they destroyed my sole account and everything I ever wrote (and all downstream comments by others) with a kafkaesque automated nightmare.

Strangely, they still thought I was human enough to pester me about buying into their IPO.