chatbots

Social bots are computer programs that use fake profiles to spread masses of pre-written posts on social media. This often involves misinformation.There is now talk of a “bot epidemic” on Twitter. A quarter of all tweets on climate change and half of all Twitter profiles that comment on Corona are said to be controlled by bots.One of the ways these bots can be identified is that they often just forward content instead of making posts themselves. But a new AI-based software could soon change that.The GPT-3 program calculates word sequences based on their probability. For example, it can create songs or propaganda tweets from given words.Although AI bots can hardly keep up in real discourse, IT security expert Bruce Schneier believes that many forums will soon be dominated by bots debatin...