NeurIPS Poster Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers

The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS - VulpineCitrus

In an attempt to grasp the magnitude of web scraper attacks against my websites, i went the way of visualizing.

AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi

Low-quality ‘slop’ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa Mahdawi

Stop Clicking on Junk: How to Identify and Ignore AI-Generated Slop Today

The internet is slowly being flooded by AI slop. What is it and how can you avoid it?

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI?

AI is straining the open web, forcing a choice between abundance with redistribution and scarcity built on paywalls, writes Paul Keller.

Disrupting Dark Networks

Disrupting Dark Networks focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert and illegal networks. The book begins with an overview of the key terms and assumptions of social network analysis and various counterinsurgency strategies. The next several chapters introduce readers to algorithms and metrics commonly used by social network analysts. They provide worked examples from four different social network analysis software packages (UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek and ORA) using standard network data sets as well as data from an actual terrorist network that serves as a running example throughout the book. The book concludes by considering the ethics of and various ways that social network analysis can inform counterinsurgency strategizing. By contextualizing these methods in a larger counterinsurgency framework, this book offers scholars and analysts an array of approaches for disrupting dark networks.

The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

Anubis, designed to protect your website from unwanted requests from AI crawlers, is way more powerful than you might think.

AI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.

AI-generated junk content is flooding every community platform. Traditional moderation can't keep up. Portable, cross-platform contribution history is a structural fix that addresses the root cause.

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

AI-driven Bot Attacks Surged 12.5x According to Thales Bad Bot Report

Bots now dominate the internet, accounting for over half of all traffic, with 40% classified as malicious.AI is erasing the line between legitimate and maliciou

Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens

Researchers warn of the growing risk of massive AI swarms manipulating popular sentiment and upending democracy as we know it.

In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?

Boycotts, sabotage and other types of civil disobedience have long served collective action against injustice.

In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?

Boycotts, sabotage and other types of civil disobedience have long served collective action against injustice.

AI-generated responses are undermining crowdsourced research studies

Many answers to online research questions show signs of being generated by AI chatbots, raising doubts about the validity of behavioural data collected this way