“I love bots” feels like a controversial statement now, given the rise of troll farms deploying them and the proliferation of egg accounts spreading bad information or engaging in harassment. Even if ...

As Taraschuk explains to Observer, a bot is essentially a social media account that performs particular tasks on autopilot, without the need for human control. Platforms like Twitter are full of ...

Social agents increasingly operate across text, images, audio, and video, enabling richer interaction and more convincing ...

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization ...

In the months after Covid-19 was first identified, the World Health Organization identified another health threat. The WHO warned Silicon Valley firms of an “infodemic,” with false information ...

It began with just one post. Late one night, I was scrolling through my social media feed, and something caught my eye. You know that feeling when something doesn’t sit quite right, like an image in a ...

In political discussions on social media, distinguishing between human users and artificial intelligence (AI) bots has become a perplexing challenge, according to a new study. Conducted by researchers ...

OREM, Utah (KSL.com) — In the aftermath of last week’s fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox urged people to stay off ...

Two social media accounts purporting to be average Americans — Sue Williamson and Ricardo Abbot — posting Russian propaganda justifying the country's invasion of Ukraine (U.S. Department of Justice) ...

Bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop and other “meme” stocks, according to an analysis by Massachusetts-based cybersecurity company PiiQ Media, suggesting organized ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial intelligence bot, according to one executive from Meta, Facebook and ...