Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

It's lone been a twelvemonth since Digg laminitis Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a fewer others announced the link-sharing tract would relaunch, promising a "social find built by communities, not by algorithms." Now, 2 months aft opening its Reddit-like platform to the public, Digg is announcing a "hard reset" that's shutting down operations and volition "significantly downsize the Digg team."

When they announced its relaunch, Rose told The Verge that AI could "remove the janitorial enactment of moderators and assemblage managers." Now, the caller Digg's CEO Justin Mezzell writes successful a enactment pinned to the homepage that, "We knew bots were …

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