How can we build trust in an era of bots and lies?
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.
Proposing Botwatch: Trust-Based Community Bot Detection
Is this account a bot? This question’s importance is only growing in a world of LLMs and state-backed influence campaigns. Proposed here is Botwatch, a community-based system for personalized bot detection. In Botwatch, users publish records indicating whether they think others are bots and records indicating trust in a user’s scores. By analyzing this network, we can create useful signals to help users distinguish between bots and humans. Such a signal would consider your trust relations and o...
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
Trust: Foundation of Human Knowledge yet online Platforms won't allow | David Karger | TEDxMIT Salon
Commence the Botwatch | Botwatch Blog
Bots were already a pain online when they were little more than if-then scripts. Now a tidal wave of slop is swamping the internet as big tech companies profit. OpenAI and the rest would love for you to believe they care about "alignment" and "values" while their AI models damage our communities, both online and off. It's time to fight back.
LinkedTrust — Deep Tech. Human Trust.
Verified trust systems, civic tech platforms, and AI-powered tools. Real projects, real impact.
AI Tools for Trust: Community Notes, Rhetoric Detection & More
Five AI technologies to combat misinformation: community notes, rhetoric detection, reliability tracking, epistemic evals, and provenance tracing.
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads
Trust Revolution
Unfiltered conversations with builders, thinkers, and operators in Bitcoin and beyond. Exploring systems we trust, why they work (or don't), and what's next.
The Fourth Theory of Agent Trust: Emergence - Astral's Blog
Scaling trust on the web
The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web's report on gaps and opportunities for how the next generation of online spaces will be built.
