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50 votes
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How Quora died - The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
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In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
9 votes -
Google announces Bard, a ChatGPT competitor based on LaMDA
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YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
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Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US
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A GPT-3 bot was posting on /r/AskReddit for a week and routinely getting upvoted and replied to
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Facebook has an internal simulation of the site populated entirely by bots that they're using to test the effects of possible changes
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Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots
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The Yang Gang and its bots
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Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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The bot scare
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A novel example of namespace clashing in competition between bots
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems. Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who...
Discuss: namespace clashes expose and ensure instabilities in user-side solutions to interface problems.
Case in point -- the RemindMeBot, which will send a timed reminder message to anyone who calls it in a reddit comment with the phrase "RemindMe!", has been cloned and iterated upon by another bot, Kzreminderbot, which responds to the exact same trigger phrase. Both bots reply to the comment threads where they are summoned. Kzreminderbot has slightly more diverse features, including email/text notification, but the interesting thing here (I think) is the impotence of the response from the creator of RemindMeBot, who has added a link in their comment replies to send annoyed feedback to the second bot.
We talk occasionally about the scramble for usernames on new services, but this is an slightly novel example of the cascading hierarchies of website design. A feature which reddit lacked is added by a bot, but that bot is too provisional to cover the hole which it was meant to fill.
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The secret list of words causing demonetization by Youtube bots
19 votes -
I'm not a robot
7 votes -
How I eat for free in NYC using Python, automation, artificial intelligence, and Instagram
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The Knight Foundation commissioned a study to analyze bot accounts that spread fake news on Twitter. This is what they found.
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The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
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Introducing reCAPTCHA v3: the new way to stop bots
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Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers
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This bot is posting the Alabama Constitution on Twitter one tweet at a time. It's the longest constitution in the world. It will be done fall of next year.
@ala_const: the longest constitution in the ENTIRE world...
10 votes