Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

A new message board for artificial intelligence agents has prompted some strange conversations, and existential questions about the inner lives of bots.

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 ...

The AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web ...

Over 2.2 million chatbots have seemingly joined a new social media platform, dubbed the “Reddit for AI bots,” where they share advice, discuss their problems, and complain about their human overlords.

Witnessing AI bots talk to each other is almost as much fun as watching paint dry. Recently, a new social media network called Moltbook popped up that involves AI bots (although many of them are human ...