I started a medium publication and I can't seem to grow it.
So it's a tech related publication and so far all the followers and writers are friends and people I know. But I want to add new writers. Is there anything I can do to onboard genuine writers and grow followers?
I was searching this restaurant online. I checked it's google reviews and it was just 5 stars with no text. Just endless stars, no photos, no text and not even a good place or a nice.
Which made me think these reviews are surely bloated and none of these accounts have been to this place. I don't know if this is a bot.
And why does google allow giving stars even though people have not interacted with the business or their services? Kind of strange to me.
I like what ride sharing app has done, once the ride is completed then it shows give stars.
why can't google do this or done this?
So I have used different tools to build automations and AI agents(not those complex ones but simple repeated tasks).
And likewise people smarter than me would make complex AI agents and build it to cause harm like steal data, cause server overload etc etc.
This was my understanding, BUT what I just found out was there is something called a human backed AI agent.
Let me explain this as simply as I can. So it's a bot or an AI agent that carries your ID. These bots do the work on your behalf, carrying your ID. So for example, your bots would go to sites like booking a movie or buying something from Amazon but only way these sites know that it's you not some anonymous bot is through your ID. Pretty smart way to run your AI agents, I must say.
It's like you give orders (prompts) to your army (AI agents) and they do your bidding.
And apparently there is a lot of research going on and a lot of companies are pouring big budget on this.
It's blown my mind and I don't know what to think but I do sure wanna try it😂
I sure everyone must have seen it. It's like a random ass video like a clip from bgt or a movie clip or a karen screaming but the captions would be likke pewdiepie is a 30 year old youtuber....
Just totally random and unrelated to the actual video. What is the logic or reason behind this. Are they automated accounts?
I mean what are they justt totally random?
You the one where people just quote a line from the clip and that's all. Nothing before and after that. Just copy the line. And the thing which I find even more crazy is these comments are usually the top comments😂
Looking at the situation of the world right now, I don't think the world doesnot need more devs. I think cybersecurity will prove to be the next big opportunity or maybe cloud. I don't know, help me out. I think cybersecurity is a better option or am I wrong?
I feel like for Saas companies they are going heavy on organic with SEO and AEO. And people in drop shopping and ecom are going towards meta ads.
I mean it was useful feature and help us plan our budget. The results may not be as per the estimate but it did give a pointer to start.
It seems like meta has a habit of removing useful features and adding unecessary ones.
Spam, coordinated fake behavior, fake reviews, astroturfing, it all just feels worse every year. Rate limits and captchas only do so much when the other side has better AI than the defense does.
I've been looking into different "proof of unique human" experiments lately. World ID is one that keeps coming up whenever this topic gets brought up. The idea of proving you're a unique person cryptographically, without some central database storing everyone's identity, is honestly pretty interesting on paper.
Whether it actually scales or gets adopted widely is a whole different question though. But the core problem isn't going anywhere: how do platforms actually know they're dealing with real, distinct people and not the same person (or bot) a thousand times over.
What trust and safety approaches are you actually seeing work in 2026? Curious if anything's really moved the needle or if it's all still catching up.
Every time I refresh my feed, I see an ad. Every post I make, the first comment is an ad. So I wanted to know are there real companies or products running ads on reddit and getting solid returns from it?
I am trying to build a simple app for myself. I'm also hoping that I can get them monitized and earn some money. But I wajt know my audience and my competition.
Maybe it's just me, but over the last year I've started questioning whether I'm actually talking to real people half the time.
I've been messing around with World ID and recently tried AgentKit while building a small AI workflow.
It wasn't really the AI part that surprised me, it was realizing how little we actually know about who's on the other end of the screen anymore.
Is it a person or am I just sharing my secrets to a bot?
I also played with the DeepFace stuff just out of curiosity. It got me thinking that we're probably going to need something better than CAPTCHAs if AI keeps getting better.
Not saying this solves everything, but it's the first thing I've used that made me think "yeah, this could actually become useful."
Am I overthinking this, or do you guys think proving someone is human is going to become pretty normal?