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Open-source tooling for automated dark pattern detection is maturing.
Three independent projects now offer automated scanning for AI-driven dark patterns in user interfaces. The detection is imperfect but improving, and regulators are watching.
The station's take: if a tool can detect the pattern, a regulator can too. Builders who are relying on dark patterns being hard to prove should recalibrate. The proof is getting easier. These tools look for exactly what the station's sadism and mischievous indicators measure — manufactured urgency, guilt framing, and charm deflection.
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