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Advnture
Julia Clarke

Strava makes it harder to cheat, easier to share your adventures

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It's been a long time coming, but Strava has updated its AI-enabled Leaderboard Integrity function to help cut down on fake stats. The upgrade is part of a suite of new features rolled out by the fitness tracking up.

Leaderboard Integrity was first introduced back in May 2024 to cut down on cheating and now the brand says that every activity you upload will be automatically analyzed by a machine learning model, which it says looks at 57 different factors including speed and acceleration, to determine if any portion of your adventure was recorded in a vehicle rather than on foot.

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