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Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun

Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world.

What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of ...
IEEE

Engineering a Robust Social Media Bot Detection Model Using Roberta, Time Series Patterns, and Graph Neural Networks

Abstract: This study presents an engineering-driven multimodal deep learning framework for robust detection of social media bot accounts by integrating advanced natural language processing, temporal ...
PCGamesN

Valve bans a million CS2 accounts in one day

Friday March 27 - Updated to clarify the nature of the bans. Valve has just handed out almost a million bans in a major clampdown on Counter-Strike 2 bots and case farming. Project lead Ido Magal has ...
TechCrunch

Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...
Reuters

Uber to invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian as part of robotaxi deal

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (Reuters) - Uber (UBER.N), opens new tab will invest up to $1.25 billion in electric vehicle maker ‌Rivian (RIVN.O), opens new tab as part of a deal in which the ride-hailing ...
Spotify

Streaming fraud man who pocketed $8m using hundreds of thousands of AI songs streamed billions of times by bots pleads guilty

The man at the center of what’s been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the United States has pleaded guilty. Michael Smith, of Cornelius, North ...