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I really feel sorry for anyone in the social media business needing to find a way to get rid of all the chatGPT bots.

24 🇮🇹 | Core Dev at ethOS, a mobile OS with native Ethereum support.

father. im here to mainly ask curious questions

When talking about social media, it will always depends on what the platform is trying to achieve and what the users want.

For instance, a dating App has strong KYC, gates content behind log-in, and purges/hides account for inactivity/low reputation. Users are fine with that because of the nature of the app.

Stuff like twitter is meant for quick content consumption and creation, making stricter user management strategies an hard sell. 

Every solution I could give has its cons:
-Reputation systems suck for new and passive users, and the system can be easily played (like farms, sub4sub). 
-Paywalls are hardly strong deterrents.
-KYC does not allow for alt-accounts or anonymity
-Many Apps are incentivized to have APIs for businesses (easier bots) and they might actually want bots to boost metrics, etc.

That's why I mentioned that I feel sorry for whoever has to fix this, because there doesn't seem to be magic bullet.

how do you envision we should deal with it?