IMO Stacker.news already has a great system for filtering out crap. Zaps.

That's why I use this site over Nostr and many other sites. Content that is appreciated is zapped. Content that is garbage is down-zapped. I seriously doubt what Wikipedia is doing will work for long. It sounds like the people creating the bots that do this are rather lazy. If Wikipedia starts using these types of filter the AI bots will improve.

The funny thing to me is that people don't seem to get that the real issue isn't AIs. AI's just make it cheaper and easier to spam people. The problem is a lack of an incentive system or a COST system in most platforms. Even a small cost like what SN does is a major leap forward. The other thing is that punishing crap content will lead to better content being produced by humans and computers. I don't really care WHAT makes the words. I care about the words.

As @DarthCoin says over and over the pay to post model is what makes SN work. Its not really post to get paid. I think we forget about the incentives on most things. Its the root.

If sites like Wikipedia adopted bitcoin as SN has it would revolutionize it. Bitcoin can really transform so many things because it is freedom money. Internet money. And hard money. Few seem to get this. Even in bitcoin. Its not just NGU.