California Law Bans Bots From Pretending to Be Human - Effective July 1, it will be illegal for bots interacting with California consumers to pretend they're human if they're trying to sell goods, services, or to 'influence a vote in an election.'

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Seems like a first ammendment violation to me, but it would be nice to see reddit have to ban bots.

[–]allie[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. It's more than the bots now but Reddit started going down with their arrival.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow that's weird. We've gotten close enough to passing the Turing test that there are now laws against it. Because it's good enough to fool people, but not good enough to provide an actual service. It's like we're in the "uncanny valley" of the Turing test, but in a few decades it'll probably be a lot more practical and laws like this will be reversed.

[–]allie[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, the uncanny valley. I have some thought about the uncanny valley that are not PC.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I love how they tack that elusion of Russian hacking to the end of the title.

They're desperate to keep that idea in the public mind. Rediculous.