As a grown man who still possesses his delusional childhood belief that he would've crushed on Robot Wars, I was in my element playing Crash Bots. It's essentially everything that makes the show so ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. AI-controlled bots have become a significant part of online multiplayer games. You can find them in titles like Fortnite, Mecha Break, Marvel Rivals, ...

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

PRISTINA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is ...

Librarian Sondra Eklund spends her time stocking books for the public library system she works for in Virginia. One of her patrons recently asked the library to acquire a children’s book about pets ...

A new report from edge cloud platform provider Fastly reveals what it called “a striking shift in the nature of automated web traffic” with a recent analysis of traffic indicating that AI crawlers ...

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented it ...

I n her 35 years of teaching, Julie Brown has never seen anything like it. Fake students — bots, as she calls them — have been enrolling in her courses at an alarming rate. Last fall, the marketing ...

Welcome to the world of social media mind control. By amplifying free speech with fake speech, you can numb the brain into believing just about anything. Surrender your blissful ignorance and swallow ...

Bots are overwhelming social media, distorting engagement metrics, spreading misinformation, and eroding trust in online interactions. Decentralization can fix this key concern. As the old wisdom goes ...

Bots get a bad rap, but they’re not all bad. Without web crawlers, for example, search engines couldn’t index new content on the internet. But what is bad is when verification providers, including ...