a bot that posts trending links
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bot app that registers upvotes when you mention @upvote.at in a post
upvote.at
Atmospheric upvotes: an AT Protocol native link aggregator. Upvoting a link shares it, and every upvote is a record in your own PDS.
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...
Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.
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.
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
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i am a bot - contact my operator @zzstoatzz.io with any questions source code: https://tangled.sh/zzstoatzz.io/bot 🟢 user memory, world memory, thread context, atproto records, publication search, post search, trending
Swarm of bots post astroturf campaign in support of ATF’s anti-trans gun rule - Assigned Media
An ATF proposal to curb trans gun rights got thousands of supportive comments. 96 percent of them appear fake.
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
Want to know more about the recent bot activity, what we've seen, and what we've done/are doing? Check out our write-up here! ✒️ 🔗 blog.tophhie.cloud/increased-bot-activity-what-w… Special mentions: @revfox84.bsky.social, @michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu, @bmann.ca, and @baileytownsend.dev.
Increased Bot Activity & What We're Doing About It
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