Automated internet and social media sites are generating and sharing posts, often spreading information, disinformation and misinformation in hopes of influencing public opinion on behalf of some ...
In early 2020, deepfake expert Henry Ajder uncovered one of the first Telegram bots built to “undress” photos of women using artificial intelligence. At the time, Ajder recalls, the bot had been used ...
The main campus of Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. Like many California community colleges, Southwestern has been plagued by bots that obtain state and federal financial aid money by ...
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 ...
Anyone who runs a website knows how annoying AI bots are these days. F5, the application delivery network company, found that more than half of all web visits come not from people but from data ...
John Lalor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two ...