What to do with bots on Product Hunt?
Stefan Pettersson
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As an example, look at the replies of this post: https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/what-s-your-favorite-online-earning-platform?comment=2842577
Literally 80% are from bots with ChatGPT generated bios and stolen profile photos.
What is the end-game? Have them be active and undetected for a while to later do spam posts? Or perhaps to "sell" bundles of upvotes/comments on launches?
No matter what, it is hurting PH and the PH community at its core. It is already bad enough that launches/upvote are largely a fact of how good you are at LinkedIn automation to encourage people to upvote, but now with all the bots it is even worse.
Fast forward and the bots will be even harder to distinguish from real people, creating a doubt if it is actually worth engaging because "is it a real person or just a bot?"
I'm sure this is a high priority topic for the PH crew, and I don't have any silver bullets. What I'm thinking of is the need of some kind of "verification" or KYC, that some other platforms uses.
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