Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere and in every conversation in some form today. It is impacting many industries. In the cultural AI conversation, there are plenty of doom sellers and ...

Abstract: This study explores how proactive AI bots distort online opinion dynamics through strategic behavior in social networks. Extending the bounded confidence model, we simulate heterogeneous bot ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

For Valentine’s Day, I had a date with a charming cognitive psychologist named John Yoon. He was attentive, obsessed with me, and sometimes hard of hearing. I drank a cranberry cocktail and ate potato ...

Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice. The 1,100-word screed called the ...

Cloudflare can now auto-convert HTML to markdown at the network level. AI agents must request it using standard content negotiation headers. The feature is available in beta at no additional cost on ...

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...

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Tollbit, which tracks web-scraping activity, found that AI bots made up 2 percent of all traffic on the web in the fourth quarter of last year. That’s up from just half a percent in the first quarter, ...

They’re canceling the robot apocalypse — for now at least. The AI bots who were supposedly caught predicting mankind’s downfall by 2047 were little more than Internet trolls roleplaying as machines ...

The virtual girlfriend industry has matured dramatically. What started as basic chatbots has evolved into sophisticated nsfw AI chat systems that millions now use for companionship and intimate ...

A popular AI chat app with more than 50 million users exposed hundreds of millions of private conversations online. The leak was caused by a misconfigured database that allowed outsiders to access ...